I need to iterate through a file, checking whether each line
'startswith()' a string that belongs to a set.
Normally, the most efficient way I would do this would be:
strs=set(['foo','bar'])
for line in file:
if line.strip() in strs:
print line
However, for this case I need to do a st
Brian Cole wrote:
>I need to iterate through a file, checking whether each line
> 'startswith()' a string that belongs to a set.
>
> Normally, the most efficient way I would do this would be:
> strs=set(['foo','bar'])
> for line in file:
>if line.strip() in strs:
>print line
>
> Howeve
Brian Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is obviously the least efficient manner to do this as I'll always
> be iterating over the entire 'strs'. I know I could make a binary tree
> out of 'strs' but that's a little more work that don't have time to do
> today. I know there should be something
