How to compare text?

[cmkl]

what about using the standard module 'difflib' with all it's helpers?
This module uses a very smart and fast algorithm for comparing 
sequences and evaluating differences.
- The difflib method 'ndiff' is an easy wrapper to a UNIX-diff like
  function to compare lists of strings.
- others are the classes Differ and SequenceMatcher
Maybe that's overkilled for a simple purpose, but its worth
to take a look.

Carl

"Guenter Kruschina" <G.Kruschina at gmx.de> wrote in message news:<mailman.1007411287.7555.python-list at python.org>...
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> > 
> > 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?
> > Thank you for help.
> > Ladislav
> > 
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> 
> Hallo Ladislav, I have written a small progam, which will work as you expe=
> ct. I 
> hope so. I think this is a fast way to compare two paragraphs.
> 
> wbg
> G=FCnter
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