Python incorrect indent for for-loop

Question

I am executing the below code and it is printing an empty list. Why is that?

fname = input("Enter file name: ")

if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"

fh = open(fname)

count = 0

lst = []

for line in fh:

    line = line.rstrip()

    word = line.split()

    if len(word) < 0:

        countinue

print(word[1])

Answer 1

There were two issues:

• 1st is with the indentation, that is the reason for getting the empty print
• 2nd is you I think unintentionally missed the space so that creates the duplicated or repeated result.

#Assignment 8.5

#file name = mbox-short.txt

fname = input("Enter file name: ")

if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"

fh = open(fname)

count = 0

for line in fh:

    line = line.rstrip()

    if not line.startswith('From '): #To check if the line staty with 'From '

            continue    #Note that there is a space behind the From, otherwise the print resuly would duplicated

    word = line.split()

    count = count + 1

    print(word[1]) #be careful with the indent

print("There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word")

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