On Oct 16, 11:03 pm, John Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here are some sample lines.
>
> Text file 1 contains:
>
> DescribeImage AllAdjustments.psd 0.668000012636 0.046 0.426
> 0.06475 0.06475 0.005875
> DescribeImage All_Options_Multi.psd 0.552750021219 0.046 0.355875
> 0.01525 0.017125 0.0
> DescribeImage All_Options_Quad.psd 0.57025000453 0.046 0.314875
> 0.058375 0.058375 0.007875
> DescribeImage Apple_RGB.psd 0.538999974728 0.046 0.315 0.04675
> 0.04875 0.0
>
> Text file 2 contains:
> DescribeImage AllAdjustments.psd 0.7889 0.056 0.786 0.0665
> 0.06476 0.999
> DescribeImage All_Options_Multi.psd 0.5527500421419 0.43154312
> 0.4443 0.43124 0.017125 0.0
> DescribeImage All_Options_Quad.psd 0.5702503200453 0.046 0.34
> 0.058375 0.4342 0.43214
>
> Lines are tab delimited. Note, in this example text file 2 contains three
> lines, while text file 1 contains four lines.
>
> Where there are matching lines in each text file (e.g. "DescribeImage
> AllAdjustments.psd" exists in both files), I want to compare each of the
> numbers from that line to the numbers in the corresponding line.
>
> If there is not corresponding line (like " DescribeImage
> Apple_RGB.psd"), skip the comparison test.
>
> I hope this helps describe my problem.
>
If the first 2 fields are unique when combined, then you could use
that as the key:
data = {}
for line in open(path):
fields = line.split("\t")
data[tuple(fields[ : 2])] = fields[2 : ]
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