python-find-occurrences-of-strings-from-a-reference-file-within-an-input-file

gistfile1.py

#stackoverflow answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6225590/python-find-occurrences-of-strings-from-a-reference-file-within-an-input-file

def count_line_occurrences(ref_list,input_list):
  line_counter = {}
  # Initialization
  for ref_line in ref_list:
    ref_line = ref_line.rstrip()
    line_counter[ref_line] = 0
  for input_line in input_list:
      input_line = input_line.rstrip()

  for ref_line in ref_list:
    #print ref_line
    for input_line in input_list:
      #print input_line
      if str(input_line).find(str(ref_line)) != -1:
        print 'found ' + ref_line
        line_counter[ref_line] += 1
  return line_counter

if __name__ == "__main__":
    x = count_line_occurrences(["a","b","c"],["c","c","b","a"])
    print x