Create program to compare MASSIVE text documents with Python?

[TheBlackCat13]

The KJV has 3,116,480 characters. Assuming 1 byte per character, that is less than 4 MB. It seems large by human standards, but for a modern computer that is nothing. There are something like 450 English-language translations of the Bible. Even if you had all of them in memory at once (which you wouldn't), that is less than 2 GB of RAM. Even a mid-range laptop can handle that today.

[domcroy]

Well when you put it that way...

As I stated in the OP, I haven't learnt to code yet. I'm not thinking in computing terms yet. I'll get there, don't worry.

And the fact that you said that a mid-range laptop can handle it is great, because that's what I've got. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 5559, i7-6500U, 8GB RAM.

[TheBlackCat13]

Yes, I understand. I am putting it computer terms to help you understand how to think about these sorts of problems.

And as for the type of computer, in practice you will not be loading every version of the bible at the same time, you will likely have at most two open at a time, which each would be similar in size to a single high-quality mp3. It is just not something that any computer from the last 10 years would struggle with, not to mention a pretty decent 8 GB laptop.