Question

I am trying to create a program that will read in a text file and print a specific word number on a specific line given by the user. I am not having any issues with the prompts, I am just having issues getting the specific word. I know that I will be using readlines() and split(), it’s just putting them together that I am having a hard time grasping. A nested for loop? Is one for loop sufficient?

How do I combine printing the line number and word number?

Answer 1

This should get you started. You stated that you already got the arguments, so you should be able to modify this as you like.

with open("inputfile.txt") as myfile:
    for line_no,l in enumerate(myfile.readlines()):
        print "Line number",line_no     
        for word_no,w in enumerate(l.split()):
            print "word number",word_no     
            print "word: ",w

If you only need word w at line l and you can do

with open("inputfile.txt") as myfile:
    print myfile.readines()[l].split()[w]