On Friday 01 July 2005 04:39 am, Lad wrote: > Hi, > What is the best method for comparing two files by words? > I was thinking about reading files by words and compare them but a word > in one file can be linked with a new line character ( \n) > and this '\n' will cause that the words will considered to be > different( eventhough without '\n' are the same)
Use the split from re instead of the string method, and include all the non-word characters (including '\n') as whitespace characters. Then you'll have only words (I think you can also wind up with empty strings, which you can strip out pretty easily). -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
