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  Index in a list Anatoli Hristov <tolidtm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-17 12:10 +0200
    Re: Index in a list Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-10-17 18:46 +0200

#31493 — Index in a list

Hello,

I'm trying to index a text in a list as I'm importing a log file and
each line is a list.

What I'm trying to do is find the right line which contains the text
User : and take the username right after the text "User :", but the
list.index("(User :") is indexing only if all the text matching. How
can I have the right position of the line which contains the word
("(User :")

Thanks

Anatoli

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On 17/10/12 12:10:56, Anatoli Hristov wrote:
> I'm trying to index a text in a list as I'm importing a log file and
> each line is a list.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is find the right line which contains the text
> User : and take the username right after the text "User :", but the
> list.index("(User :") is indexing only if all the text matching. How
> can I have the right position of the line which contains the word
> ("(User :")

Perhaps something like:

target = "(User :"
for line in your_list:
    position = line.find(target)
    if position >= 0:
        print line[position+len(target):]


Hope this helps,

-- HansM

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