How do I match a word in a text file using python?

Question

I want to search and match a particular word in a text file.

with open(\'wordlist.txt\', \'r\') as searchfile:
        for line in searchfile:
            if         


        

Answer 1

You can always use regex, something along the lines of:

import re

with open('wordlist.txt', 'r') as searchfile:
        for line in searchfile:
            if re.search( r'\sthere\s', line, re.M|re.I):
                    print line

• \sthere\s - any space followed by 'there' followed by any space
• re.I - means case insensitive
• re.M - doesn't really matter in this case (since lines only have 1 \n)