[Tutor] ideas on how to process a file

[Spencer Parker]

The question is now...what do I do to find duplicate entries in the text
file I am reading.  I just want to filter them out.  There are a ton of
duplicate entries in there.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Spencer Parker <inthefridge at gmail.com>wrote:

> Oh...nice...this makes things much easier than what I had before.
>
> I mainly used writelines because I couldn't figure out why it was only
> writing one line.  Then I did and never took out the writelines...I just did
> and it works just fine for the most part.
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Spencer Parker <inthefridge at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is my code:
>> > http://pastebin.com/m11053edf
>>
>> I guess you have something like this now:
>>
>> for line in text_file.readlines():
>>         if line.find('FULLNAME')>=0:
>>                 write_file.writelines(line)
>>
>> This can be better written as
>>
>> for line in text_file: # No need for readlines(), a file is iterable
>>  if 'FULLNAME' in line:
>>    write_file.write(line)  # writelines() is for writing multiple lines at
>> once
>>
>> Kent
>>
>
>
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