I want to find the last white space of the string, and them break it there. line_size is the size that the line has to be, so it varies.
if line[line_size] != ' ':
for x in reversed(range(line_size)):
print line[x]
if line [x] == ' ':
break_line = line[x]
you should use rfind for the same
In [71]: l = "hi there what do you want"
In [72]: l.rfind(' ')
Out[72]: 20
rfind Return the highest index in the string where substring sub is found
the problem in your case seems to be with line_size you can go for reversed(range(len(l)))
In [76]: for x in reversed(range(len(l))):
....: if l[x] == ' ':
....: print x
....: break
....:
20
Indices in Python are zero-based, so if line_size = len(line) (the number of characters in line), then the last character of line is line[line_size-1].
Assuming line_size = len(line), this will always fail
if line[line_size] != ' ':
because the first item is line[0], the last item is line[len(line)-1]
