Program doesn't stop iterating through list - python-3.x

Question

def gameinfo():
lines = []
html_doc = 'STATIC.html'
soup = BeautifulSoup(open(html_doc), 'html.parser')
for mytable in soup.find_all('table'):
for trs in mytable.find_all('tr'):
tds = trs.find_all('td')
row1 = [elem.text.strip() for elem in tds]
row = str(row1)
sausage = False
with open("FIRE.txt", "r+") as file:
for line in file:
if row+"\n" in line:
break
else:
if row.split(",")[:4] == line.split(",")[:4]:
print(row)
print(line)
file.write(line.replace(line+"\n", row+"\n"))
print('Already exists with diff date')
sausage = True
break
if sausage == False:
print(row.split(",")[:4])
print(line.split(",")[:4])
print(row)
print(line)
file.write(row+"\n")
print('appended')
while True:
gameinfo()
gameinfo()
This program is supposed to keep searching the text file FIRE.txt for lines that match the variable row. When i run it, it works okay, but the part of the code that is supposed to check if the first four elements of the list are the same, and then skin the appending section below, doesn't work. When the program detects that the first 4 elements of a string turned into a list(row) that matches with another string's first 4 elements that's in the text file, it should overwrite the string in the text file. However when it detects a list that has the same first 4 elements, it loops forever and never breaks out.
My string looks like this:
['Infield Upper Deck Reserved 529', '$17.29', '4', '2', '175']
and i compare it to a list that looks like this:
['Infield Upper Deck Reserved 529', '$17.29', '4', '2', '170']
and when it sees that the first 4 elements in the list are the same, it should overwrite the one that was in the text file to begin with, but it is looping.

Answer 1

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Methinks you want to use the csv module. If you iterate through a csv.reader object instead of the file object directly, you'll get each line as a a list.
Example:
import csv
row = ["this", "is", "an", "example"]
with open("FIRE.txt", "r+") as file:
reader = csv.reader(file)
for line in reader:
if row in line:
break
pass
Alternatively, if you don't need to use this in anything other than Python, you could pickle a collections.OrderedDict with a tuple of the first four items as the keys:
import collections
import pickle
import contextlib
#contextlib.contextmanager
def mutable_pickle(path, default=object):
try:
with open(path, "rb") as f:
obj = pickle.load(f)
except IOError, EOFError:
obj = default()
try:
yield obj
finally:
with open(path, "wb") as f:
pickle.dump(obj, f)
with mutable_pickle("fire.bin",
default=collections.OrderedDict) as d:
for row in rows:
d[tuple(row[:4])] = row