How to search for a string in text files?

The reason why you always got True has already been given, so I’ll just offer another suggestion: If your file is not too large, you can read it into a string, and just use that (easier and often faster than reading and checking line per line): Another trick: you can alleviate the possible memory problems … Read more

“public” or “private” attribute in Python ? What is the best way?

Typically, Python code strives to adhere to the Uniform Access Principle. Specifically, the accepted approach is: Expose your instance variables directly, allowing, for instance, foo.x = 0, not foo.set_x(0) If you need to wrap the accesses inside methods, for whatever reason, use @property, which preserves the access semantics. That is, foo.x = 0 now invokes … Read more