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copied!<p>This seems to be what you are trying to do in <code>finder_character</code>. I'm not sure why you need <code>finder</code> at all.</p> <p>In python you can loop over iterables (like strings), so you don't need to do <code>range(len(string))</code>.</p> <pre><code>for line in in_file: for i in brain_rat: if i in line: found += 1 </code></pre> <p>There appear to be a few other oddities in your code too:</p> <ul> <li>You open (and iterate through) the file twice, but only closed once.</li> <li><code>line_number</code> is never used</li> <li>You get the total of a character in a file for each line in the file, so the total will be vastly inflated.</li> </ul> <p>This is probably a much safer version, <code>with open...</code> is generally better than <code>open()... file.close()</code> as you don't need to worry as much about error handling and closing. I've added some comments to help explain what you are trying to do.</p> <pre><code>def finder_character(file_name,character): found=0 # Initialise the counter with open(file_name, "r") as in_file: # Open the file in_file = file_name.split('\n') opts = { 'vowel':'aeiou', 'consonant':'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz', 'space':'' } default= '!@#$%^&*()_+=-123456789{}|":?><,./;[]\'' for line in in_file: # Iterate through each line in the file for c in opts.get(character,default): With each line, also iterate through the set of chars to check. if c in line.lower(): # If the current character is in the line found += 1 # iterate the counter. return found # return the counter </code></pre>

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