Question

The code is suppose to take a string of multiple arguments and split them with the “Split()”. It does do that, but it only passes the first argument to the “CheckList()”. So if I type ” 1 2 4″ it will only pass “1” to CheckList. Everything else works as it should.

import re            

def CheckList(Start):
    DoIt = 0
    s = int(Start)
    End = s + 1
    End = str(End)
    for PodCheck in F.readlines():

        if re.match('Pod' + End, PodCheck.strip()):
            DoIt = 0

        if re.match('Pod' + Start, PodCheck.strip()):
            DoIt = 1

        if DoIt == 1:
            print PodCheck,   

    return

def Split(P):
    Pods = P.split()
    for Pod in Pods:
        CheckList(Pod)

    return

F = open("C:\Users\User\Desktop\IP_List.txt")

Pod = raw_input('What pod number would you like to check?: ')
Split(Pod.strip())
print 'Done'

Answer 1

Your problem is right here:

for PodCheck in F.readlines():

The first call to CheckList uses up all the data in F. Subsequent calls to Checklist skip the for loop because there is nothing left to read.

So after opening F your should read all of it’s data. Without changing too much of your code I would add this after you open your file:

F_lines = F.readlines()

And change to loop in CheckList to

for PodCheck in F_lines: