How to compare text?

[Eddie Corns]

"A" <printers at sendme.cz> writes:


>Hello,
>How can I compare of one  parragraph of text with another
>paragraph?Each paragraph can have about 100 words.
>For example I have the first paragraph

>I want to be very good at Python programming. Better than in Perl.

>THe second paragraph might look loke this:

>She works all day long to master Perl.

>All that I need is to find out if any of word from the second is in the 
>first paragraph. For the example above I should find out word

>Perl


>What is the best and quickest way?

Depends a lot on how fussy you are but here's a possible starting point.

[a for a in re.split(r'\W*',para1) if a in re.split(r'\W*',para2)][:-1]

--> ['to', 'Perl']


Makes some assumptions about how paragraphs are formatted.

Eddie