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firefly
firefly

Reputation: 361

How to open file, convert string and write to new file

I am trying to open a text file, remove certain words that have a ] after them, and then write the new contents to a new file. With the following code, new_content contains what I need, and a new file is created, but it's empty. I cannot figure out why. I've tried indenting differently and passing in an encoding type, with no luck. Any help greatly appreciated.

import glob
import os
import nltk, re, pprint
from nltk import word_tokenize, sent_tokenize
import pandas
import string
import collections

path = "/pathtofiles"

for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
    if file.endswith(".txt"):
        f = open(file, 'r')
        flines = f.readlines()
        for line in flines: 
            content = line.split() 

            for word in content:
                if word.endswith(']'):
                    content.remove(word)

            new_content = ' '.join(content)

            f2 = open((file.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] ) + "_preprocessed.txt", "w")
            f2.write(new_content)
            f.close

Upvotes: 0

Views: 343

Answers (1)

Peter Dolan
Peter Dolan

Reputation: 1423

This should work @firefly. Happy to answer questions if you have them.

import glob
import os

path = "/pathtofiles"

for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
    if file.endswith(".txt"):
        with open(file, 'r') as f:
            flines = f.readlines()
            new_content = []
            for line in flines: 
                content = line.split() 

                new_content_line = []

                for word in content:
                    if not word.endswith(']'):
                        new_content_line.append(word)

                new_content.append(' '.join(new_content_line))

            f2 = open((file.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] ) + "_preprocessed.txt", "w")
            f2.write('\n'.join(new_content))
            f.close
            f2.close

Upvotes: 1

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