Re: How to match data in two different text files as fast as possible?
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section though as it's mostly out of date and in need of a major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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