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Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity

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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Leonardo Petry
<leonardo.petry.br@gmail.com> wrote:
> The loop below (at the bottom) runs each line of the file
>
> fin = open('wordplay.txt');
> user_input = raw_input('Enter some characters: ')
> count = 0
> for line in fin:
>     word = line.strip()
>     if(avoids(word, user_input)):
>         count += 1;
>
> This is just too convenient.
> Basically my question is: Why is python not treating the contents of wordplay.txt as one long string and looping each character?

Because the iterator for file-like objects iterates over lines, not characters.

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New to Python. For in loops curiosity Leonardo Petry <leonardo.petry.br@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 20:38 -0700
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-05-14 03:46 +0000
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 20:48 -0700
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-05-13 21:49 -0600
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-05-14 14:03 +1000
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-14 07:38 -0400
  Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-05-14 09:41 -0400

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