Efficient grep using Python?

[P at draigBrady.com]

sf wrote:
> Just started thinking about learning python.
> 
> Is there any place where I can get some free examples, especially for
> following kind of problem ( it must be trivial for those using python)
> 
> I have files A, and B each containing say 100,000 lines (each line=one
> string without any space)
> 
> I want to do
> 
> "  A  - (A intersection B)  "
> 
> Essentially, want to do efficient grep, i..e from A remove those lines which
> are also present in file B.

You could implement elegantly using the new sets feature
For reference here is the unix way to do it:

sort a b b | uniq -u

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