On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote: > results = [] > > for line in text_file: > if 'FULLNAME' in line and line not in results: > results.append(line) > write_file.write(line)
In general it is better to use a set for this kind of application, it will have much better performance if the number of lines is large. results = set() ... results.add(line) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor