Dear group:
I have two lists and I have to match the element in
the first list to element in second list and print the
line from second list:
Example:
listA =['apple','baby','cat']
listB =['fruit\tapple','tree\tapple','fruit\tmango',
'human\tbaby'
'infant\tbaby'
'human\tAlbert'
'animal\tcat'
'tiger\tcat'
'animan\tdog']
I have to take apple, search in listB and print
fruit apple
tree apple
infant baby
human baby
animal cat
tiger cat
I am doing it this way:
for i in listA:
for m in listB:
cols = m.split('\t')
term = cols[2]
if i == term:
print m
this is very time consuming.
Because the two columns in listB are redundant I am
unable to do a dict method.
The other way could be using a reg.ex method (which I
did not try yet because the script written based on
equality is still running.
for i in listA:
pat = re.compile(i)
for m in listB:
cols = m.split('\t')
terms = cols[1]
if pat.match(terms):
print m
Experts, could you please suggest any other method
which is fast and does the job correctly.
Thank you.
Srini
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