[nylug-talk] Send a set really fast

[Gary Mort]

Michael Bacarella wrote:
> Comma delimited list of integers.
>
> http://m.bacarella.com/aset.txt.gz
> http://m.bacarella.com/bset.txt.gz
>
>   

Isn't Python an interpreted language?

Just curious, are you actually running a program in the background and 
it periodically checks for new files, or are you running a program 
periodically to compare the sets?

Seems to me that you integers are already in the format Python would 
need to determine that their arrays, so if instead of trying to have 
your Python program do the import with your own code, you could just use 
python's code on loading:

you have a file with a  list of numbers:
1,2,3,4

The format to declare them as an array would be:
a=[1,2,3,4]

So if you use a fast text editor to concat a=[ to the beginning of the 
file and ] to the end of the file

Than invoke your python script to include those 2 files as python 
programs, python will do all the work for you and automatically knows 
it's setting up an array.