[FEEDBACK] Is this script efficient...is there a better way?

[Bob X]

Steve Holden wrote:
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>>Thank you very much...as a follow up:
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>>#1 Can I use the same sys.exit("message here") on the IO errors as well?
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> Sure. I assumed you would generalize the first example to the rest ...
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>>#2 For the "print looks like a debugging statement"...how would it be
>>done different...in the context of my script and not a total re-write?
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> I simply thought that since you were writing the output to the outFile
> anyway it seems a bit redundant to be printing it. Plus the readlines()
> includes the line ending, so you'd get double-spaced output fom the print
> statements anyway.
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>>#3 I will test your shorter one as I have stayed away from RE till now.
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> Well, obviously there may be problems if the keywords contains any
> characters special to regular expressions. Nut my example whould wqork for
> testing purposes.
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>>#4 On your shorter one should xreadlines still be done for memory sake?
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> Yes. This is a general improvement.
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Thank you very much...your shorter script did work. The keywords are all 
"normal" english words that would not have any special characters. I 
only added a re.IGNORECASE (since case doesn't matter to me) after a 
quick search of the python docs.

Domo!

Bob