I have this code:
afile = "name.txt"
f = open(afile,"r")
content = f.readlines()
f.close()
correct = content[1]
answer = raw_input()
if answer == correct:
print 'True'
Let say that, because of the name.txt, content[1] is George and then I run the code and I type George for answer. Why I won't get True? Why answer and correct are not the same?
The data you read includes newlines; strip those from the lines first:
if answer == correct.strip():
which removes all whitespace from the start and end of a string. If whitespace at the start or end is important, you can remove just newlines from the end with:
if answer == correct.rstrip('\n'):
.lower() if capitalization isn't important.Rewritten a bit:
def get_file_line(fname, line_num):
with open(fname) as inf:
try:
for _ in range(line_num + 1):
line = inf.next()
return line.rstrip('\r\n')
except StopIteration:
return None
if answer == get_file_line('name.txt', 1):
print('True')
