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 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor