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William Juang
William Juang

Reputation: 13

Python item in list not working

I am having an issue with an if statement regarding an item in a list. Here is the code I am using 

score = 0
for j in range(0,1):
    for k in range(0,len(split)):
        keyword = str(split[k][1])
        words = texts[j]
        print(keyword,words)
        if str(keyword) in list(words):
            print("true")
            score = score + float(split[k][0])
        else:
            print("false")
        print(score)

Here is the portion of the output where the statement is visibly wrong. What is wrong in the situation?

"now" ['anonym', 'now'] false 0

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8599

Answers (1)

jasonharper
jasonharper

Reputation: 9597

Your keyword is "now" - INCLUDING the quote marks. It indeed does not exist in words, which only includes words without quote marks. Either fix whatever problem with the source of the data is adding those quotes, or strip them off with something like keyword = keyword.strip('"').

Upvotes: 1

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