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Did you try asking ChatGPT for this?

I just had a quick conversation and got the following at the end of it.

def search_town(file_name, town_name):
    with open(file_name, 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
            if town_name in line:
                return line.split()[-1]
    return 'Town not found'

The prompts were:
For a data file (rain.txt) with a row format of "'Town Name' 'temp'" write a python function to search for a town.

It was close but wouldn't handle town names with spaces.

I don't think this will work for Towns with spaces in them. The line.strip().split() will break "New York" into "New" and "York".

This suggested a function that would work with csv files. I told it we didn't have that.

We don't have a csv file unfortunately. Could we search on the name being in a line and then split() and return the last element?

This is what gave me the snippet above.

As you can see, the snippet looks to do what you were asking. You just need to massage it for your specific need. e.g. output line rather than the temp.

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