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files and exceptions

Take a closer look at the data

Look closely at the data. It appears to conform to a specific format:
A colon, followed by a The line spoken by the
The cast space character cast member
member’s role

Man: Is this the right room for an argument?
Other Man: I’ve told you once.
Man: No you haven’t!

Other Man: Yes I have.
Man: When?
Other Man: Just now.
Man: No you didn’t!

With this format in mind, you can process each line to extract parts of the line
as required. The split() method can help here:

Man: Is this the right room for an argument?

Invoke the “split()” method each_line.split(":") This tells “split()”
associated with the “each_line”
string and break the string
whenever a “:” is found. what to split on.

Man
Is this the right room for an argument?

The split() method returns a list of strings, which are assigned to a list of
target identifiers. This is known as multiple assignment:

A list of target identifiers on the left… …are assigned the strings returned by “split()”.

(role, line_spoken) = each_line.split(":")

Using the example data from above, “role” is …“line_spoken”: is assigned the string “Is this
assigned the string “Man”, whereas… the right room for an argument?”

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