when a word in a sentence is input the program identifies all the positions where the word occurs

Asked Sep 21 '15 at 19:36

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I need to get my program to identify a word in a string and give it its index e.g. Hello, world, world if i input world would give me "world 1st positions world 2nd position. I have converted string to list and used enumerate, i can index whole string etc its just can't get program to give indexes of same word which is in the same text .

def quote():
   quote = " sample quote sample quote sample quote"
   quote1 = quote.split()
   print(str(quote1) + "\n\n");
   word = input("what word would you like to index? ")
   print(quote1.index(word ));
   print("The word you have chosen is placed at index " +
      str(quote1.index(word)))

As you can see quite new to all this have been trying all day!!

asked Sep 21 '15 at 19:36

srowe

Well, `.index()` only returns the first index of the first instance of the searched word. – Morgan Thrapp Sep 21 '15 at 19:38
If you're using python 2.x, you should also realize that you're using `input()` when you should be using `raw_input()` – wpercy Sep 21 '15 at 19:41
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@wilbur The OP's `print` statements looks more like python3 – Bhargav Rao Sep 21 '15 at 19:43
You right, you right – wpercy Sep 21 '15 at 19:44
You could always go for old-school iteration over the string as an array and detect the words, and their positions, on your own. – Sep 21 '15 at 19:57
Thanks, but I am stumped if word in array twice, my results only give index position of word once ! – srowe Sep 22 '15 at 09:09

when a word in a sentence is input the program identifies all the positions where the word occurs

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