[Tutor] Merging Text Files

[Emile van Sebille]

On 10/14/2010 7:48 AM Ara Kooser said...
> Morning all,
>
>    I took the pseudocode that Emile provided and tried to write a python
> program. I may have taken the pseudocode to literally.
>
> So what I wrote was this:
> xml = open("final.txt",'r')
> gen = open("final_gen.txt",'r')
>
> PIDS = {}
> for proteinVals in gen:
>      ID = proteinVals.split()[0]
>      PIDS[ID] = proteinVals
>
> print PIDS
>
> for line in xml:
>      ID = proteinVals.split()[1]
>      rslt = "%s,%s"% (line,PIDS[ID])
>      print rslt


Without reading much further, what happens when you use the loop 
variable here instead of the prio loop variable?

Change the second line to

ID = line.split()[1]

and see what you get.

Emile