== comparisons against lines from readlines() fail

Question

I am currently working on a small anagram program that takes all possible permutations of a word and compare them with a dictionary. However, I am unable to get the results to

Answer 1

compare = txt.readlines()

readlines() doesn't strip the line endings from each line, so each line will have a \n at the end. That causes all your comparisons against compare[j] to fail.

You could remove the \n's with something like.

compare = [line.strip() for line in txt]