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search_term = 'Ajax' | |
with open('iliad.txt') as in_file: | |
# how many times our search_term has occurred | |
term_count = 0 | |
# how many lines contain at least two of our search_term | |
mult_term_line = 0 | |
# lowercase because of line.lower() below -- we want to compare lowercase only against lowercase | |
search_term = search_term.lower() | |
for line in in_file: | |
line = line.lower() | |
if search_term in line: | |
# however many times our search_term has already occurred, add the number that are in this line | |
term_count += line.count(search_term) | |
if line.count(search_term) > 1: | |
# print(line) | |
mult_term_line += 1 | |
if mult_term_line != 1: | |
times = 'times' | |
else: | |
times = 'time' | |
print(f'{search_term} was in The Iliad {term_count} times') | |
print(f'It was on the same line multiple times {mult_term_line} {times}, which will have printed out above unless the answer was zero') |
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