I have no more hair to pull out, so I'm asking the group for help on a VERY simple question. I have two very similar text files to read-one with the final letters in the name 10%.txt and the other 20%.txt. I've written the following simple code to read these two files:
# Program to read and print two text fiiles fileNameA = 'c:/Python24/outputs_1ubq_alignments/output_1ubq_alignments_10%.txt' #text file one firstFile=open (fileNameA,'r') inFileLeftA = 1 #more file to read inLineA=[0] while inFileLeftA: inLineA = firstFile.readline() if (inLineA == ''): infileLeftA = 0 #if empty line end of first file else: print inLineA firstFile.close() fileNameB = 'c:/Python24/outputs_1ubq_alignments/output_1ubq_alignments_20%.txt' #text file two secondFile=open (fileNameB,'r') inFileLeftB = 1 #more file to read inLineB=[0] while inFileLeftB: inLineB = secondFile.readline() if (inLineB == ''): infileLeftB = 0 #if empty line end of second file else: print inLineB secondFile.close() I realize that I probably ought to be able to code this more efficiently, but as a rank beginner I am less worried about efficiency than output. I can't seem to get BOTH files to print when run as presented, although when I split the program into two programs each file seems to print OK. As written here however, I can get the first but not the second textfile to print. What am I doing wrong?. Philip Carl Associate Professor of Pharmacology 1026A Mary Ellen Jones Bld. CB 7365 University of North Carolina Medical School Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Phone: 919-966-3544 FAX: 919-966-5640 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor