python: search file for string

Question

I have tried to create a python function which takes in 2 parameters; a file name and a search string. In this case the file name is the script itself (script.py) and the searc

Answer 1

You are iterating over each character of the file by calling for c in f.read().

Use for line in f and you will indeed iterate over each line.

Also prefer the use of with, this makes your code a lot more robust.

So this would be better:

with open('fileName') as f:
    for line in f:
        #process