Search for specific str in a csv file-CodePudding

I have to create a guessing game where each user creates a library of movies and then the other person has to guess a movie title.

I save the movies into a csv file. I am trying to create a function where a user makes a guess and if the movie name is found in the csv then print "Congrats" else "guess again". I have it reading the file but it returns guess again or congrats for every field in the file. How can I just return it once? if it is in any field print congrats or if it is not in any field then guess again but all only once. I don't want to have it search by a specific row number since it could be found in any of the rows.

Here is my current function I am using where the csv file referenced is the list of movie titles of the other player.

def guessingPlayer1v3(num_guesses):
    for guess in range(0, num_guesses):
        Guess=input("Movie title guess: ") #players guess
        Guess=Guess.lower().strip() #guess to search for
        with open('collection2.csv', 'r') as f_obj:
            reader=csv.reader(f_obj, delimiter=',')
            for row in reader:
                for field in row:
                    if field == Guess:
                        print("Congrats, you guessed a title")
                    else:
                        print("Guess Again")

and it is returning:

Movie title guess: cat in the hat
Guess Again
Guess Again
Guess Again
Guess Again
Guess Again
Guess Again

Movie title guess: all dogs go to heaven
Guess Again
Guess Again
Guess Again
Congrats, you guessed a title
Guess Again
Guess Again

CodePudding user response：

You can try something like this:

import csv

listOfMovies = []

with open('collection2.csv', newline='') as f:
    reader = list(csv.reader(f))
    for line in reader:
        listOfMovies.append(line[0])

def guessingPlayer1v3(num_guesses):
    for guess in range(0, num_guesses):
        Guess=input("Movie title guess: ").lower().strip() 
        if Guess in listOfMovies:
            print("Congrats, you guessed a title")
            break
        else:
            print("Guess Again")

CodePudding user response：

There are two print statements, the first one determine if player input has correct, and the second are showing every row "Guess Again", revoming else statement and adding a return statement will avoid this, once the name has stored on a variable just iterate over all rows and compare it...

for row in reader:
    for field in row:
        if field == Guess:
            print("Congrats, you guessed a title")
            return

print("Guess Again") # if movie is not in file