Question

in python Complete the function search_file(fname, wd) to take a filename and a word. If the the word is found in the file contents, the function should return True, otherwise it should return False.

Answer 1

def search_file(fname, wd):
    try:
        f = open(fname)
        for x in f:
            if(wd in x):
                return True
        f.close()
        return False
    except FileNotFoundError as fe:
        print("\nFile", fname, "could not found. Try again.")
    except Exception as ex:
        print("Exception..")

#Testing
#Remove the # from below line to test on file name myfs.txt
#print(search_file("myfs.txt","number"))