Re: Query regarding set([])?

2009-07-10 Thread vox
On Jul 10, 4:17 pm, Dave Angel wrote: > vox wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2:04 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > >> You are probably misinterpreting len(s3). s3 contains lines occuring in > >> "file1" but not in "file2". Duplicate lines

Re: Query regarding set([])?

2009-07-10 Thread vox
On Jul 10, 2:04 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > You are probably misinterpreting len(s3). s3 contains lines occuring in > "file1" but not in "file2". Duplicate lines are only counted once, and the > order doesn't matter. > > So there are 119 lines that occur at least once in "file2", bu

Query regarding set([])?

2009-07-10 Thread vox
Hi, I'm contsructing a simple compare-script and thought I would use set ([]) to generate the difference output. But I'm obviosly doing something wrong. file1 contains 410 rows. file2 contains 386 rows. I want to know what rows are in file1 but not in file2. This is my script: s1 = set(open("file