brad wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has ever solved this efficiently... not looking > for specific solutions tho... just ideas. > > I have one thousand words and one thousand files. I need to read the > files to see if some of the words are in the files. I can stop reading a > file once I find 10 of the words in it. It's easy for me to do this with > a few dozen words, but a thousand words is too large for an RE and too > inefficient to loop, etc. Any suggestions?
Use an indexer, like lucene (available as pylucene) or a database that offers word-indices. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
