Question

I have been debugging this code and couldn’t make the == operator work on two matching strings.

The code:

str1 = "string1"
str2 = "string2"

print str1
print str2

for row in results:
  print row[0]
  print row[1]   #as requested
  if((row[0] == str1) and (row[1] == str2)):
     print "We found the match....."
     #rest of the code

Answer 1

make sure you clean out the whitespace with .strip().

>>> str1 = "string1"
>>> str2 = "string2"
>>>
>>> results = [["string1 ", " string2"]]
>>> for row in results:
...   if((row[0].strip() == str1) and (row[1].strip() == str2)):
...      print "We found the match....."
...
We found the match.....
>>>