How to check a file for duplicate lines - part 2 Posted By Adam Reilly on February 15, 2010

This will just be a quick update to the last post. In the previous version of the duplicate record detector the input file is specified statically (or “Hard Coded”) inside the file. This means that the source code must be modified each time that users want to run analysis on a new load file.

Unlike compiled languages like C++ or Java, Python doesn’t have a lengthy build cycle associated with making changes. While this isn’t too inconvenient, your users might not be comfortable directly modifying source code and there’s also the potential to introduce bugs by changing the wrong line. Fortunately, Python provides a method for passing data to a program via the command line... Read more