On Apr 5, 2:18 pm, "anglozaxxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 5, 2:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > What I am trying to do is compare two files to each other. > > > If the 2nd file contains the same line the first file contains, I want > > to print it. I wrote up the following code: > > > correct_settings = open("C:\Python25\Scripts\Output > > \correct_settings.txt","r") > > current_settings = open("C:\Python25\Scripts\Output\output.txt","r") > > > for line in correct_settings: > > for val in current_settings: > > if val == line: > > print line + " found." > > > correct_settings.close() > > current_settings.close() > > > For some reason this only looks at the first line of the > > correct_settings.txt file. Any ideas as to how i can loop through each > > line of the correct_settings file instead of just looking at the first? > > Instead of "for line in correct_settings", try "for line in > correct_settings.readlines()".
That Still didnt fix it. Same output -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list