#!/usr/bin/env python """This script takes as arguments two filenames. It adds each line in each file to a set, which is unique to each file. Finally it calculates the difference between the two sets and prints out the each element in the difference set""" import sys a = open(sys.argv[1]) b = open(sys.argv[2]) setA = set() setB = set() for line in a.readlines(): setA.add(line.strip('\n')) for line in b.readlines(): setB.add(line.strip('\n')) setC = setA.difference(setB) for val in setC: print val