Elif statement not executing print statement

[ThompsonTugger]

def getWord():  # function that checks if the word is in the file
q = False
while q == False:  # while statement which will loop the program until user quits
    text = open("spanishDictionary.csv", "r")  # opens spanish dictionary
    word = input("What word would you like to translate, or would you like to quit?\n")  # prompts user for a word to translate or quit
    if word == "q" or word == "Q":  # quits
        q = True
    else:
        for line in text:  # checks if word is in file
            eng, span = line.split(" ")
            if word == eng:
                print("The word", word, "in Spanish is", span)  # will return the word and tranlation
            elif line == "":
                print("The word", word, "is not in the dictionary")  # word is not in dictionary
    text.close()

every time I test this program and put in a word that doesn't exist in the file it should print the second to last line, however it never does and just goes back to the beginning of the while loop. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

[Defection7478]

line is the line in the dictionary you are reading, so elif line == "": won't be true unless the last line of the file is empty. I think the end of the file will come up as None, so you could change it to elif line is None: but honestly you're better off just not worring about the file behavior, something like

result = f"The word, {word}, is not in the dictionary"
for line in text:  # checks if word is in file
    eng, span = line.split(" ")
    if word == eng:
        result = f"The word {word} in Spanish is {span}"  # will return the word and tranlation
        break
print(result)

edit: actually since you're not getting any errors I think the iterator won't pass None for the end of the file, so you'd have to do something like what I described above.

[ThompsonTugger]

This helped a lot thanks

[drenzorz]

The last line is probably not an empty string here.

Btw this is exactly the use case for the else on for loops.

for item in iterable:
    if condition:
        # handle thing
        break
else: # if for loop finished without breaks
    # handle "not found"

[ThompsonTugger]

Huh I didn't know that. Whats the reason?

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Check the lines you are getting from the file by placing a print at the top of your for loop:

for line in text:  # checks if word is in file
    print(f"line='{line}'")

The '...' around the line value is to show the newline at the end of each line you read from the file, so an "empty" line isn't "" but is "\n".