I am trying to look up each value from file A and loop it through file B. As
i already said that I am new in python programming so this is what I could
come up with. And this is the output of an algorithm I use in my research so
its not a part of any homework assignment.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Ananya Sharma <as1...@msstate.edu> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Could you explain the logic that you are trying to use in the code
> below, because it is not making much sense. Also, is this a
> homework problem?
>
> > *Script-*
> > *
> > *
> > f1=open('fileA','r')
> > f2=open('fileB','r')
> > a=""
> > b=""
> > for n in f1:
> > while not b.startswith(n):
> > b=f2.readline()
> > if len(a)>0:
> > print a
>
> a is always "" above, so len(a) is always zero.
>
> > b=""
> > while not b.startswith(">"):
> > a=a+f2.readline()+"__"
> [...]
>
> You just set b to "", so the if conditional is never entered.
>
> Regards,
> Gora
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