Help printing any items that contains a keyword from a list

[Liquid_Ocelot]

matches = []
letter = input('Search title starting with the letter: ') # input is already returning a str, you don't need to convert it.
for movie in movies_list:
   if movie.startswith(letter):
       matches.append(movie)
       print(movie)

Now you've got a list of movies matching the last criteria. If you have a list of favorite movies (call it favorites), you can use the extend method to add the items in the matches list to the favorites list.



Yup that is what I figured out I guess the only thing I am stuck on now is how do I make the selections for the menu repeat? What I mean is once a selection is made if its not in the order that the code has been written it just exits the program. I want to know how to be able to enter the commands multiple times and still go back to the main menu.

Sorry if that explanation is a little borked lol

Here is the whole code anyways

import random
import sys
from random import choice, sample
print("***Movie Title Explorer***")
def menu(): print("l – load file of movie titles"'\n'"r – random movie"'\n'"s– search"'\n'""
      "sw – starts with"'\n'"k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites"'\n'"f – favourites display"'\n'""
      "c – clear"'\n'"q - quit program")
menu()
print("command = ?")

selection=input("Please Select:")
l = file = open("C:\\Users\\LiquidO\\Desktop\\Assingment 2 python\\movies.txt", "r")
if selection =='l':
    movies_list = file.readlines()
    movies_list = [movie.strip() for movie in movies_list]
    print("Movies now loaded")
else:
    print ("Unknown Command")

menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='r':
 print("Random choice selected")
 r = print(random.choice(movies_list))
else:
    print ("Unknown Command")

menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='s':
    list = movies_list
    keyword = str(input("Search keyword: "))
    for movie in movies_list:
        if keyword in movie:
            print(movie)
else:
    print("Unknown Command")

menu()
favourite=[]
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='sw':
    letter = str.upper(input("Search title starting with the letter: "))
    for movie in movies_list:
        if movie.startswith(letter):
            favourite.append(movie)
            print(movie)
else:
    print("Unknown Command")

menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='k':
   (favourite[-1])
   print("Last movie displayed saved to Favourites")
menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='f':
   print("Your Favourites List")
   print(favourite[-1])

menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='c':
    del favourite[:]
    print("Favourites List has been cleared")

menu()
selection = input("Please Select:")
if selection =='q':
    print("Bye!")
    sys.exit()

And the output 

***Movie Title Explorer***
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
command = ?
Please Select:l
Movies now loaded
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:r
Random choice selected
The Thin Red Line (1998)
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:s
Search keyword: de
Alexander Nevsky (1939)
All the President's Men (1976)
Amadeus (1984)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Belle de Jour (1968)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Cavalcade (1933)
The Cider House Rules (1999)
The Citadel (1938)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Distant Thunder (1973)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Double Indemnity (1944)
East of Eden (1955)
Fanny & Alexander (1983)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Forbidden Games (1952)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
The Insider (1999)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jean de Florette (1987)
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Loves of a Blonde (1966)
The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1973)
The Overlanders (1946)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (1974)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Tender Mercies (1983)
The Tender Trap (1955)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Three Comrades (1938)
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1979)
Videodrome (1982)
West Side Story (1961)
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:sw
Search title starting with the letter: d
Damn Yankees (1958)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Daniel (1983)
Danton (1983)
Dark Eyes (1987)
Dark Victory (1939)
Darling (1965)
David Copperfield (1935)
David Holtzman's Diary (1968, reviewed 1973)
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Day for Night (1973)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
Dead Calm (1989)
Dead End (1937)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Dead of Night (1946, reviewed 1946)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Death in Venice (1971)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Deep End (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Diabolique (1955)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Diary of a Country Priest (1950, reviewed 1954)
Die Hard (1988)
Diner (1982)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Disraeli (1929)
Distant Thunder (1973)
Diva (1982)
Divorce-Italian Style (1962)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dodsworth (1936)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Don't Look Back (1967)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Down by Law (1986)
Dracula (1931)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Drowning by Numbers (1991)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Duck Soup (1933)
Dumbo (1941)
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:k
Last movie displayed saved to Favourites
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:f
Your Favourites List
Dumbo (1941)
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:c
Favourites List has been cleared
l – load file of movie titles
r – random movie
s– search
sw – starts with
k – keep - save the last displayed movie title to your favourites
f – favourites display
c – clear
q - quit program
Please Select:q
Bye!