[Tutor] how to join two different files

[Emile van Sebille]

On 7/17/2009 1:27 PM Kent Johnson said...
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Emile van Sebille<emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> 
>> delim= '\t'
>>
>> file('ala', 'w').writelines(
>>  [ delim.join([ii,jj] for ii,jj in
>>    zip(
>>      [xx.strip() for xx in
>>        file('/home/amrita/alachems/chem2.txt','r').readlines()
>>        ],
>>      file('/home/amrita/pdbfile/pdb2.txt', 'r').readlines()
>>      )
>>    ]
>>  )
> 
> Maybe you could break that up a bit? 
> This is the tutor list, not a
> one-liner competition!
> 

Yeah, I knew that -- but as the OP submitted a one-liner to start with, 
I simply responded in kind.  That's why I put the flavor-to-taste 
comment on...

Emile