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Hey guys I got a question about dictionaries! - twistingtide - Mar 21, 2017
So here is my situation
1. I am given a file with multiple paragraphs of random text.
2. A new paragraph is specified by a empty line or \n of course
3. I need to read through the file and separate each paragraph from each other, and I would like to make a dictionary
4. So I want the key in my dictionary to be the paragraph number
5. Then the value to be a list of each line in that paragraph.
example of output below (by the way '#'s' are comments so I can help explain what I want)
#File 1:
#paragraph 1
'hey my name is joe'
'I am from the US'
'I love to play sports'
\n
\n
#paragraph 2
'what do you like to do?'
'where are you from'
\n
\n
So that is the text file example
This is kind of what I want to do:
d = {}
d ={paragraph1 : [['hey my name is joe'], ['I am from the US'], ['I love to play sports']], paragraph2 : [['what do you like to do?'],['where are you from']]}
But since I wont know how many paragraphs are in the file, nor will I know how many lines are in the paragraph, how can I read the file create a standard key value such as paragraph and every time a new paragraph appears increment it by one....I imagine you will use a loop to do this.
* - hunter24957 - Mar 22, 2017
Here you go!
PHP Code
<?php
def open_file(filename):
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
return {'paragraph ' + str(int(key + 1)):paragraph.split('\n') for key, paragraph in enumerate(f.read().split('\n\n'))}
if __name__ == '__main__':
output = open_file(filename='textfile.txt')
print(output)
Output:
Code
{'paragraph 1': ['test', 'this'], 'paragraph 2': ['enjoy', 'this']}* - Goodies - Mar 22, 2017
@Hunter I doubt he wants each word in a list tbh. Definitely on the right track using a simple dict comprehension with enumerate, though. Just don't use paragraph.split() in that fashion.
* - hunter24957 - Mar 22, 2017
(Mar 22, 2017 09:11 AM)Goodies Wrote: @Hunter I doubt he wants each word in a list tbh. Definitely on the right track using a simple dict comprehension with enumerate, though. Just don't use paragraph.split() in that fashion.
Sorry, my example was a bit off. Picture the text file like this:
Quote:test
this
enjoy
this
I shouldn't have used words instead of sentences, my bad.
For a text file like this:
Quote:hello my name is Jimmy
Nice to meet you
How are you today?
I'm good thank you
this would be the output:
Quote:{'paragraph 1': ['hello my name is Jimmy', 'Nice to meet you'], 'paragraph 2': ['How are you today?', 'I'm good thank you']}Just like he displayed as his preferred output.
Well, he wanted the output like this:
Quote:{paragraph1 : [['hey my name is joe'], ['I am from the US'], ['I love to play sports']], paragraph2 : [['what do you like to do?'],['where are you from']]}But then the embedded lists would be redundant due to them only containing one string each.