Am downloading a text page, c.txt, from a webserver. c.txt only contains the letter 'c' . Able to download file fine and print its contents, the character 'c'. Cannot, however, use its contents in the code below:
import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request('http://localhost/c.txt')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
result = str(response.read())
print(result) # prints 'c' just fine
furl = "c"
furl = str(furl)
if result == furl: # Does not work
print('Correct')
No errors are incurred. Just will not work
There is most likely an extra white space character in the result. You can check for it by printing characters on either side.
print '>%s<' % result
If the result looks like >c < you've got a trailing white space (including newline characters).
To remove the leading and trailing white space from a string, you can use the strip() method on the string.
result = str(response.read()).strip()
Or you can do it right at the point of comparison.
if result.strip() == furl:
print 'correct'