i am a beginning programmer, i am trying to write a simple code to compare two character sets in 2 seperate files. ( 2 hash value files basically) idea is: open both files, measure the length of the loop on.
if the length doesn't match, == files do not match if length matchs, loop while comparing each character from each file if they match. please tell me what i am doing wrong ? i am using python 2.7 ********************************** hash1= open ("file1.md5", "r") line1 =hash1.read() hash2 = open("file2.md5","r") line2= hash2.read() number1 = len(line1) number2 = len(line2) #************************** i=0 s1=line1[i] s2=line2[i] count = 0 if number1 != number2: print " hash table not the same size" else: while count < number1: if s1 == s2: print " character", line1[i]," matchs" i=i+1 count=count+1 else print "Hash values corrupt" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list