Robert,
The lists were created using MS Notepad, and I forgot about the newlines -
so you were absolutely right! So, is it possible to use strip() immediately
when reading a file into a list to avoid confusion down the road, and is
this common?
Thank you everyone who contributed to this thread :-)
- Justin
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Robert Sjoblom <robert.sjob...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > shantanoo, Andre, and Robert:
> >
> > All of your solutions seem to work (and thank you for the tips!),
> however,
> > with each solution there seems to be 2 MACs that should not be in the
> > results.
> >
> > 00:1C:14:BA:D9:E9 and
> > 00:16:3E:EB:04:D9
> >
> > should not be be turning up in the results because they are in the
> > 'verified' list. These lists are not sorted - do you think that could be
> > the issue?
>
> Definitely not, it doesn't matter if they're sorted no matter what way
> you solve it. What matters is how the logfile looks to Python. Take
> this fake list I've made consisting of your two MAC addresses:
>
> scanResults = ['00:1C:14:BA:D9:E9\n', '00:16:3E:EB:04:D9\n']
> verifiedList = ['00:1C:14:BA:D9:E9\n', '00:16:3E:EB:04:D9']
> >>> scanResults == verifiedList
> False
>
> The difference, obviously, is that 00:16:3E:EB:04:D9 contains a
> newline \n in one of the files but not the other. As such, they're not
> identical. We can solve this (probably) by adding some more list
> comprehension when we open the files initially:
> with open("scanResults.txt", "r") as f:
> scanResults = [line.strip() for line in f.readlines()]
> with open("verifiedList.txt", "r") as f:
> verifiedList = [line.strip() for line in f.readlines()]
>
> badMacs = [item for item in scanResults if item not in verifiedList]
>
> I suspect that it's the newlines that are messing with you, but if
> it's something else I can't tell without the actual files.
> --
> best regards,
> Robert S.
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