Trouble Using Equality Operator To Check If A User Input Is The Same As A Line From A Text File In Python

Just started to learn Python again since finishing my GCSEs two years ago. I've got a bit of background in C# but am having difficulties making a simple program work. The program i

Solution 1:

with

wholequiz = quiz.readlines()

you get a list of lines with newline (\n) at the end. The comparison cannot succeed unless you do:

a1 = wholequiz[1].rstrip()

That method is useful when you're reading line by line, but since you're reading the whole file at once, you could also do:

wholequiz = quiz.read().splitlines()

then no need to strip for linefeed. Of course, if there's a trailing space in the file that won't remove it (the rstrip method does)