title: Searching a file for words from a list
body: <p>I am trying to search for words in a file. Those words are stored in a separate list.
  The words that are found are stored in another list and that list is returned in the end.</p>
  
  <p>The code looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def scanEducation(file):
      education = []
      qualities = ["python", "java", "sql", "mysql", "sqlite", "c#", "c++", "c", "javascript", "pascal",
               "html", "css", "jquery", "linux", "windows"]
      with open("C:\Users\Vadim\Desktop\Python\New_cvs\\" + file, 'r') as file1:
      for line in file1:
          for word in line.split():
              matching = [s for s in qualities if word.lower() in s]
              if matching is not None:
                  education.append(matching)
  return education
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>First it returns me a list with bunch of empty "seats" which means my comparison isn't working?</p>
  
  <p>The result (scans 4 files):</p>
  
  <pre><code>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Python2\python.exe" C:/Users/Vadim/PycharmProjects/TestFiles/ReadTXT.py
  [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ['java', 'javascript']]
  [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ['pascal']]
  [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ['linux']]
  [[], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], ['c#']]
  
  Process finished with exit code 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The input file contains:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Name: Some Name
  Phone: 1234567890
  email: some@email.com
  python,excel,linux
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Second issue each file containes 3 different skills, but the function finds only 1 or 2. Is it also a bad comparison or do I have a different error here?</p>
  
  <p>I would expect the result being a list of just the found skills without the empty places and to find all the skills in the file, not just some of them.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>: The function does find all the skills when I do <code>word.split(', ')</code>
  but if I would like it to be more universal, what could be a good way to find those skills if I don't know exactly what will separate them?</p>