CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
Asmaa M. Elmohamady
Asmaa M. Elmohamady

Reputation: 55

read text file as dictionary using python and make some replacement using this dictionary

I read text file like

awsm  awesome 
gr8   great

as dictionary i need to replace acronym words with it's correct one in dictionary i used this code but it give me error " replace() argument 2 must be str, not list" code :

def acronym(text):
    with open('acronym.txt') as fin:
        rows= (line.split('\t') for line in fin )
        d = { row[0]:row[1:] for row in rows }
    acronym_words = []
    words = word_tokenize(text)
    for word in words:
        for candidate_replacement in d:
            if candidate_replacement in word:
                word = word.replace(candidate_replacement, d[candidate_replacement])
        acronym_words.append(word)
    acronym_sentence = " ".join(acronym_words)
    return acronym_sentence

acronym(" we are awsm and gr8") # to test function

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

Alex Hall
Alex Hall

Reputation: 36033

In:

d = { row[0]:row[1:] for row in rows }

row[1:] is a slice which produces a list. Just use row[1] since the dictionary values should be a string representing a single word, not a list.

Upvotes: 2

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