trouble building data structure

2014-09-28 Thread David Alban
greetings, i'm writing a program to scan a data file. from each line of the data file i'd like to add something like below to a dictionary. my perl background makes me want python to autovivify, but when i do: file_data = {} [... as i loop through lines in the file ...]

Fwd: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

2014-09-19 Thread David Alban
\r\n" to "\n" while reading the file). Additionally, some platforms will treat binary files differently. would it be good to use 'rb' all the time? On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:11 AM, David Alban wro

program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

2014-09-18 Thread David Alban
greetings, i'm a long time perl programmer who is learning python. i'd be interested in any comments you might have on my code below. feel free to respond privately if you prefer. i'd like to know if i'm on the right track. the program works, and does what i want it to do. is there a differen