>>> magicwords = ["tragedy", "comedy"]

>>> fileObj = codecs.open("C:\\avignontext\\avignon.txt", "r", "utf-8")
>>> line = fileObj.readline()
>>> fileObj = codecs.open("C:\\avignontext\\avignon.txt", "r", "utf-8")
>>> line = fileObj.readline()

>>> for word in magicwords:
	type(word) is str


True
True
>>> for word in magicwords:
	if word in line:
		print "found"



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#30>", line 2, in <module>
    if word in line:
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand