[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to write what should be a simple script in Python, which
I've never ever used before.
Essentially, I have a text file that has a list of full path file
names to other files, separated by carriage returns.
Contents of first file:
c:\blah.txt
c:\blah1.txt
c:\blah2.txt
The goal is for the user to specify another file, and then search the
specified file for instances of files from the first file.
Contents of user specified file:
file = "c:\blah.txt"
file = "c:\blah1.txt"
My goal is for the program to tell me that it found c:\blah.txt and c:
\blah1.txt.
I've read the contents of the existing file into an array, where each
element is a line from the file.
Put each stripped (to delete \n) line into a set. Then parse out the
filenames and check that they are in the set. Something like
def getname(line): <whatever)
s=set(line.strip() for line in open('allfiles.txt', 'r'))
for line in open('paths.txt'):
if getname(line) not in s:
return '%s not found'%line
else:
return 'all found'
tjr
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