Apologies is this is against the rules. I have tried creating a simple Python script that searches a text file for any of the strings in a list.
KeyWord =['word', 'word1', 'word3']
if x in Keyword in open('Textfile.txt').read():
print('True')
When i'm running the code I am getting a "name error: name 'x' is not defined" although i'm not sure why?
You could do this with a for loop as below. The issue with your code is it does not know what x is. You can define it inside of the loop to make x equal to a value in the KeyWord list for each run of the loop.
KeyWord =['word', 'word1', 'word3']
with open('Textfile.txt', 'r') as f:
read_data = f.read()
for x in KeyWord:
if x in read_data:
print('True')
x in the if x in read_data segment to append the word to a new list of "found words" Good luck!x is not defined. You forgot the loop that would define it. This will create a generator so you will need to consume it with any:
KeyWord =['word', 'word1', 'word3']
if any(x in open('Textfile.txt').read() for x in KeyWord):
print('True')
This works but it will open and read the file multiple times so you may want
KeyWord = ['word', 'word1', 'word3']
file_content = open('test.txt').read()
if any(x in file_content for x in KeyWord):
print('True')
This also works, but you should prefer to use with:
KeyWord = ['word', 'word1', 'word3']
with open('test.txt') as f:
file_content = f.read()
if any(x in file_content for x in KeyWord):
print('True')
All of the above solutions will stop as soon as the first word in the list is found in the file. If this is not desireable then
KeyWord = ['word', 'word1', 'word3']
with open('test.txt') as f:
file_content = f.read()
for x in KeyWord:
if x in file_content:
print('True')
