On 8/27/2011 5:07 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<mailman.477.1314475482.27778.python-l...@python.org>,
Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
On 8/27/2011 1:45 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<4e592852$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
open("file.txt") # opens the file
.read() # reads the contents of the file
.split("\n\n") # splits the text on double-newlines.
The biggest problem with this code is that read() slurps the entire file
into a string. That's fine for moderately sized files, but will fail
(or at least be grossly inefficient) for very large files.
I read the above as separating the file into paragraphs, as indicated by
blank lines.
def paragraphs(file):
para = []
for line in file:
if line:
para.append(line)
else:
yield para # or ''.join(para), as desired
para = []
Plus or minus the last paragraph in the file :-)
Or right, I forgot the last line, which is a repeat of the yield after
the for loop finishes.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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