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Re: How to match data in two different text files as fast as possible?
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Re: How to match data in two different text files as fast as possible?


  • Subject: Re: How to match data in two different text files as fast as possible?
  • From: has <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:36:11 +0100

Richard Ronnback wrote:

Has, I am very much looking forward to trying out your python script (which
I unfortunately haven't been able to do yet)

If you're on 10.2+ it should run out of the box as OS X includes a Python interpreter (not the latest version, but should do for this script).


I have for quite some time being tempted to learn more about python. Do you
know of any good book on Python? (i prefer that to the web when learning
something from scratch)

You could take a look at <http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/> - it's available both online and in dead tree form, and looks like the sort of thing you could rattle through. I think it's what I used.


Otherwise there's a book list at <http://wiki.python.org/moin/ IntroductoryBooks>, or you could ask on comp.lang.python for suggestions if you're still not sure. Oh, and get yourself the Python reference docs from <http://docs.python.org/download.html>. Like the ASLG, it's not so good for learning but very handy when you need to look up something specific (watch out for the Macintosh Reference section though as it's mostly out of date and in need of a major overhaul).

The basics - values, variables, conditionals, loops, functions - should all be familiar and the syntax is easy enough to pick up (it took me under a week to get comfy, and I'm pretty slow). Getting your head around the rather large and baroque class system is a bit more work, particularly if you don't already know OOP, but you don't have to tackle that immediately; just wait till you actually need it and pick up bits as necessary (it'll make more sense then).

HTH

has
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