On 25 September 2013 09:41, <dwivedi.dev...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a newbie to python. > > I have about 500 search queries, and about 52000 files in which I have to > find all matches for each of the 500 queries. > > How should I approach this? Seems like the straightforward way to do it would > be to loop through each of the files and go line by line comparing all the > terms to the query, but this seems like it would take too long.
That would be the obvious way to do this. > Can someone give me a suggestion as to how to minimize the search time? What do you mean by a "query"? (Code indicating how a query would match would be helpful here.) Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
