Add old/new status to output data file

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I’m not 100% on what you’re doing at the beginning - it looks like you’re appending old to an array if the word is in the first 60 values of a word array?

What I would do instead is create a dict at the start of the experiment (let’s call it old_new, so it’s replacing the list you’re using) and, each time a word is presented, do this:

if word in old_new:
    # If shown before, mark as old
    old_new[word] = 'old'
else:
    # If not shown before, mark as new
    old_new[word] = 'new'

meaning it gets set to “new” the first time it’s shown, and old every subsequent time. Then you can convert it back to a list for storage at the end using a for loop:

O_N = []
for item in WordItem:
    # For each word shown, store corresponding old/new value
    if item in old_new:
        O_N.append(old_new[item])
    else:
        # If word was not shown at all, store this
        O_N.append("Not Shown")