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user3102350
user3102350

Reputation: 1

split() not splitting all white spaces?

I am trying to take a text document and write each word separately into another text document. My only issue is with the code I have sometimes the words aren't all split based on the white space and I'm wondering if I'm just using .split wrong? If so, could you explain why or what to do better?

Here's my code:

    list_of_words = []

with open('ExampleText.txt', 'r') as ExampleText:
    for line in ExampleText:
        for word in line.split(''):
            list_of_words.append(word)
            print("Done!")
    print("Also done!")

with open('TextTXT.txt', 'w') as EmptyTXTdoc:
    for word in list_of_words:
        EmptyTXTdoc.write("%s\n" % word)

EmptyTXTdoc.close()

This is the first line in the ExampleText text document as it is written in the newly created EmptyTXTdoc:

Submit
a personal
statement
of research
and/or
academic
and/or
career
plans.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1410

Answers (2)

RnRoger
RnRoger

Reputation: 690

.split('') Will not remove a space because there isn't a space in between the two apostrophes. You're telling it to split on, well, nothing.

Upvotes: 0

Uriel
Uriel

Reputation: 16184

Use .split() (or .split(' ') for only spaces) instead of .split('').

Also, consider sanitizing the line with .strip() for every iteration of the file, since the line is accepted with a newline (\n) in its end.

Upvotes: 1

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