Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> writes:

[...]
> I have a  long text file that has movie titles in it and I would like
> to find dupes.
>
> The thing is that sometimes I have one called "The Killing Fields" and
> it also could be listed as "Killing Fields"  Sometimes the title will
> have the date a year off.
>
> What I would like to do it output to another file that show those two
> as a match.

Try the difflib module (read the doc, its default behavior may be
surprising).

-- Alain.
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