Great Richard, thanks.. I'm getting an error as follows:
from __future__ import with_statement SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file I don't think this is the issue in need of rework and have tried a few quick reworks.. I'll read up a bit on 'with' cheers On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Rich Lovely <roadier...@googlemail.com>wrote: > 2009/7/9 Pete Froslie <fros...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Pete Froslie <fros...@gmail.com> > > Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM > > Subject: Re: [Tutor] thesaurus > > To: Robert Berman <berma...@cfl.rr.com> > > > > > > Thanks Robert, > > > > I will try this out.. at the moment I'm playing with an API from > > 'http://words.bighugelabs.com/'. It works and pulls the synonyms into > > python. It cost money if you want to process more than 10,000 in a day > > though. > > > > I do have another pretty noob question that I'm figuring out -- once I > have > > a list of synonyms returned, is there a simple way to replace the words I > > looked up inside of the 'txt' file? > > > > For instance, I open and read the 'txt' file, grab the first word, search > it > > with the thesaurus, get the result, write the result back to the file, > and > > then grab the next word to repeat the process. It seems like there is > > probably a quick shortcut for this.. > > > > thanks so much > > > > > > > > Assuming lookup() handles punctuation and capitalisation... > > import sys > > if sys.version_info < (2,5): > print "This script needs a more recent version of python" > sys.exit(1) > elif sys.version_info < (2,6): > from __future__ import with_statement > > buff = [] > with open("path_to_input_file", "r") as fin: > for line in fin: > buff.append(" ".join(lookup(word) for word in line.split())) > > with open("path_to_output_file", "w") as fout: > fout.write("\n".join(buff)) > > This is also a good intro to the with statement, which cleans > everything up for you. Unfortunatly, it was only introduced in 2.5 as > a __future__ feature, and 2.6 as a final feature. If you've got a > version prior to that, you'll need to rework it a little, or upgrade. > > But I think this gives the general idea. I don't think there's any > more concise way of doing it than that in python. > > You also might want to use print instead of writing straight to a > file, and use the terminal's stream redirection to put the output into > a file. > > -- > Richard "Roadie Rich" Lovely, part of the JNP|UK Famile > www.theJNP.com > -- Pete Froslie 617.314.0957 http://www.froslie.net
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