> Micah Elliott wrote: > > On Nov 29, viewcharts wrote: > >>I am reading two text files comparing the values in one to the other, > >>this requires two loops. > > > > Or you could have a look at difflib. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/differ-examples.html
On Nov 30, Steve Holden wrote: > Indeed, but I personally don't see a way to persuade difflib to > compare the lines of one file with the fourth field of lines in > another. Right. I was just pointing out the possibility (I don't know the OP's data format) since no one had mentioned it yet. If there are multiple "fields" per line, then pre-massaging into one field per line might be a reasonable approach. But then you might end up doing more work than the nested loop idea. -- _ _ ___ |V|icah |- lliott <>< [EMAIL PROTECTED] " " """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
