Searching for items within a list

[ichabod801]

It's almost always better to iterate directly over the items in a list, rather than over the indexes of the list:

for pass in pass_list:
    if pass[0] == search_user:
        found = pass[1]
        break

Note that pass is a list of two items, so I'm grabbing the first item in that sub-list with the zero index. You can also use tuple assignment to make it even easier:

for user, pass in pass_list:
    if user == search_user:
        found = pass
        break