Along with the word, the script also searches for parts of the word-CodePudding

My script finds other words along with the word like apple, such as app, me, ple, appl, etc. which in the search_word, but i don't want it, i need the script to define only the complete word which in the contents but not its parts.

apple - yes, i want to define this word.
app - no, i don't want to define this word.

list.txt contains:

apple

code:

with open('list.txt') as file:
    contents = file.read()
    search_word = input("enter a word you want to search in file: ")
    if search_word in contents:
        print ('word found')
    else:
        print ('word not found')

this not work:

if search_word == contents:

CodePudding user response：

You may split the text using the space to avoid partial matching.

text_list = contents.split()
if search_word in text_list:
    print ('word found')

CodePudding user response：

This:

if search_word in contents:

Just change to:

if any(search_word==word.strip() for word in contents.split())

Thanks to the contribution in the comments!