On Aug 30, 9:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > In my case of have done os.listdir() on two directories. I want to see
> > what files are in directory A that are not in directory B.
>
> So why would you care about WHERE, in the listdir of B, are to be found
> the files that are in A but not B?! You should call .index only if you
> CARE about the position.
>
>
> is the "one obvious way to do it" (the set(...) is just a simple and
> powerful optimization -- checking membership in a set is roughly O(1),
> while checking membership in a list of N items is O(N)...).
Why wouldn't "the one obvious way" be:
def inAnotB(A, B):
inA = set(os.listdir(A))
inBs = set(os.listdir(B))
return inA.difference(inBs)
?
>
> Alex
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