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Subject: Looping issues
What I am trying to do is compare two files to each other.
If the 2nd file contains the same line the first file contains, I want
to print it. I wrote up the following code:
correct_settings = open("C:\Python25\Scripts\Output
\correct_settings.txt","r")
current_settings = open("C:\Python25\Scripts\Output\output.txt","r")
for line in correct_settings:
for val in current_settings:
if val == line:
print line + " found."
correct_settings.close()
current_settings.close()
For some reason this only looks at the first line of the
correct_settings.txt file. Any ideas as to how i can loop through each
line of the correct_settings file instead of just looking at the first?
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I think the problem is that it's actually only looping through
current_settings once; for the remaining lines in correct_settings,
current_settings is at EOF and produces nothing to be matched.
for line in correct_settings:
if line in current_settings:
print line + "found."
This may do what you want.
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