Lists

[blake7]

This seems to work a bit better:

# declare an empty list

config = []


# open the file

with open(r"c:\\Temp\python\switch\switch.txt", mode='r') as f:
 #   switchports = f.read().split('!')
    
     for switchports in f.read().split('!'):
        config.append(switchports)


# create a copy of the list

working_config = [item for item in config if "GigabitEthernet" in item]

Now I get 196 for the len of config

and 31 for the len of working_config

I can see information in the working_config list, but it looks like all the indexes contain the same information