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How to read word by word from a file using python?

 
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How to read word by word from a file using python?
gijig
14 May, 2008 - 09:35 AM
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I am a beginner in python. I need help from you guys. If possible give me the sites for some python codes.
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RE: How To Read Word By Word From A File Using Python?
24 Jun, 2008 - 03:41 PM
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The easies way i can think of is reading the hole file (or line by line) into a string and then splitting the it at every space. You will end up with a list containing all the words in file.

I would do this with the split() function. You can read about it here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
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7 Jul, 2008 - 09:29 AM
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Quick and dirty, assumes there's a file in the current working directory called "test.txt"

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--($:~)-- cat test.txt
This line is split into words.


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def getwords(file):
    """
    >>> for word in getwords('test.txt'):
    ...     print 'word: %s' % word
    ...
    word: This
    word: line
    word: is
    word: split
    word: into
    word: words.
    """

    f = open(file, 'r')
    for line in f:
        for word in line.split(' '):
            yield word.strip()



A good google search would be "python iterate over file"
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