>> >> >> > That's "zip" not "Zip" > > Have you tried looking at the docs? Or even typing help(zip) at the > python interpreter prompt? > > In rough terms, zip takes one element (line) from each of the iterators, > and creates a new list that holds tuples of those elements. If you use it > in this form: > > for item1, item2 in zip(iter1, iter2): > > then item1 will be the first item of iter1, and item2 will be the first > item of iter2. You then process them, and loop around. It stops when > either iterator runs out of items. > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=**python+zip<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+zip> > gives me > http://docs.python.org/2/**library/functions.html#zip<http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#zip> > > as the first link. > > This will read the entire content of both files into the list, so if they > are more than 100meg or so, you might want to use izip(). (In Python3.x, > zip will do what izip does on Python 2.x) > > > > -- > DaveA > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> >
Thanks Dave, I am Sorry , true I dint look up for it because as per the Suggetion by Chris, 'break' does solve my problem but I wanted to know a little about 'zip' for I encounter any other problem, parsing these two files.
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