import string searchstring = "2008" def main(): infile = open("top250.txt") infile.readline() infile.readline() infile.readline() total = 0 for line in infile: fields = line.split(" ") length = len(fields) lastField = fields[length-1] year = lastField[1:5] if year == searchstring: total = total + 1 print fields print "Total number of", searchstring, "top movies", total main()