Searching from a list in python

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I am trying to search from a list in python. Whenever I input the search term it always say "No tweets contained search", even when I know that the term is in the list. What am I doing wrong?

elif(ch==3):
        match = 0
        tweetlist.reverse()
        if tweetlist == []:
            print("There are no tweets to search.\n")
            continue
        else:
            search = input("What would you like to search for? ")
            for tweets in tweetlist:
                if(search in tweetlist):
                    match = 1
                if match == 1:
                    print ("Search Results")
                    print("----------")
                    print(tweets.get_author(), "-", tweets.get_age())
                    print(tweets.get_text(), "\n")
                elif match == 0:
                    print("No tweets contained,", search, "\n")

Could be a bad copy/paste but "if match == 1:" should is indented too far — jeff carey
– jeff carey, Commented Dec 9, 2015 at 22:10
Do you want to search for a text that contains the specified 'search' criteria? Or you want to search in general for all the occurrences (author,age etc) ? if search in tweets.get_text(): match = 1 — admix
– admix, Commented Dec 9, 2015 at 22:23

admix · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09 22:54:08Z

1

Try this:

 ...
 matched_tweets = []
 if search in tweets.get_text(): 
     match = 1
     matched_tweets.append(tweets) # append all the matches to an array
 ...

 # to print out the results
 for tweet in matched_tweets:
     print(tweet.get_text(), "\n")

edited Dec 9, 2015 at 22:54

answered Dec 9, 2015 at 22:43

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user838494 Over a year ago

This works. However, I think I am needing to return all search results with the search term. This only returns 1 result. I think this may have to do with me setting match = 1. What can I do to fix this?

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