Python for beginners/anthology

READING AND (RE)WRITING TEXTS

* you can print any text file

Note: in this case the text is in the same folder as the script, otherwise adapt path

with open('peter_rabbit.txt') as f:

       for line in f: 

       print line 

* now you can call operations on this text

new_text = []

with open('peter_rabbit.txt') as f:

       for line in f: 

               for word in line:

                       if len(word) >= 5:

                               newtext.append(word)

print(“ “.join(new_text))

* remove punctuation

import string

def remove_punct(f):

       tokens = (' '.join(line.replace('\n', ) for line in f)).lower()

       for c in string.punctuation:

tokens= tokens.replace(c," ")

return tokens

tokens = remove_punct(f)

* random choice & shuffle

from random import choice, shuffle

names = [peter, benjamin, flopsy, tod, tom, samuel, pie, ginger, moppet, nutkin, timmy, tailor, johnny, mice, tittlemouse, tiggy, rabbit, jemima, jeremy, robinson, pigling]

def select(names):

   name = choice(names) 

   return name 

mix = shuffle(names)

* proposal to publish an anthology as a pdf

• • play with search for words in texts with certain suffixes from texts, remove letters
  • write new text to file

• • once all files are finished - transform & publish!

$ cat partfilename* > outputfilename

$ pandoc input.txt -o output.pdf