[Scorpiion]

Hi I have just started out in python and have a small python program that I doing for class... I have this one file named passwd.txt and then my program that ask for a username and a password. I have successfully read in the data and put into string also the passwd.txt is read in and put into strings. I just need to check if the right username and password is typed in...

You can see how I want the if statement to work, but please tell me why it does not work and how I can do it right...

passwd.txt

name=Kalle Anka:user=kalle:passw=rally
name=Svante Carlsson:user=svante:passw=hopp

Program

# Open passwd.txt
passwd = open("passwd.txt", "r")

# Prompt for userdata
user = raw_input("Username: ")
password = raw_input("Password: ")

line1 = passwd.readline()
line2 = passwd.readline()

dict1 = line1.split(":")
dict2 = line2.split(":")

check_1_user = dict1[1]
check_1_pass = dict1[2]
check_2_user = dict2[1]
check_2_pass = dict2[2]

check_1_user = check_1_user[5:]
check_1_pass = check_1_pass[6:]
check_2_user = check_2_user[5:]
check_2_pass = check_2_pass[6:]

if (user == check_1_user) or (user == check_2_user):
 if (password == check_1_pass) or (password == check_2_pass):
   print "Okey, you have access to the secrete page..."
else:
 print "You have not access..."

# Close passwd.txt
passwd.close()

[Scorpiion]

I know what my problem is now... there is some "\n" in the string that I read in from the file... but how can I remove that?

[JackOfAllTrades]

print "this is mystring\n".rstrip()

[paathos]

Just string.strip() will remove any trailing whitespace, so the easiest way is to say check1 = check1[5:].strip().
But what if you have more users, or more passwords? You should do something like
lines = open('passwd.txt', 'r').readlines()
Then when a user enters their name and password, you would loop through all lines to see if there was a match or not.

lines = open('passwd.txt', 'r').readlines()
good = False
for line in lines:
	 data = line.split(':')
	 if user == data[0][5:].strip() and passw == data[1][6:].strip():
		  good  = True
if good:
	 Yea!
else:
	 Boo!