How to capture the contents of this file.

[jettam]

I am trying to capture the contents of this text document so I can operate on it. The contents is several lines making a paragraph. 

This is the approach I was taking but its not working. Any other suggestions ? 

inFile = r'E:\ProfessionalDevelopment\python\Python Scripting in Maya\week4\famousQuote.txt'

theWholeQuote = ()

with open (inFile,'r') as fin:

    for line in fin:

        theWholeQuote  = (line)

[Justin Israel]

A paragraph implies that it is a number of sentences followed by a newline character. Is that the case for you, or is it really a number of lines, each with their newline character, followed by extra newlines? First we would need to be explicit about what separates your lines or paragraphs. 

Second, are you trying to operate on each line, each paragraph, or to just capture the whole document? 

If you are trying to build up a paragraph by some delimiter, then you should make theWholeQuote a list and then use theWholeQuote.append() to add each component. 

Justin 

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[jettam]

It is a paragraph with a new line character at the end of each line. At this stage I am just trying to capture the whole paragraph. I was able to do that with your advice by using the name.append() in a for in statement. 

I was confused because I thought this should be captured as a string not a list. 

On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:47:03 PM UTC-7, Justin Israel wrote:

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 5:49 AM jettam <justin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to capture the contents of this text document so I can operate on it. The contents is several lines making a paragraph. 

This is the approach I was taking but its not working. Any other suggestions ? 

inFile = r'E:\ProfessionalDevelopment\python\Python Scripting in Maya\week4\famousQuote.txt'

theWholeQuote = ()

with open (inFile,'r') as fin:

    for line in fin:

        theWholeQuote  = (line)

A paragraph implies that it is a number of sentences followed by a newline character. Is that the case for you, or is it really a number of lines, each with their newline character, followed by extra newlines? First we would need to be explicit about what separates your lines or paragraphs. 

Second, are you trying to operate on each line, each paragraph, or to just capture the whole document? 

If you are trying to build up a paragraph by some delimiter, then you should make theWholeQuote a list and then use theWholeQuote.append() to add each component. 

Justin 

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[Justin Israel]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 4:07 AM jettam <justin...@gmail.com> wrote:

It is a paragraph with a new line character at the end of each line. At this stage I am just trying to capture the whole paragraph. I was able to do that with your advice by using the name.append() in a for in statement. 

I was confused because I thought this should be captured as a string not a list. 

If you just want the whole file, then you wouldn't need to loop and you could just call fin.read() to get a big string. 

If you need to individually process each line, then looping and storing to a list means you can join the list later into a string again using:

body = '\n'.join(theWholeQuote) 

There are different ways to solve the problem, but it just depends on what you are doing with each line and what you are doing with the final text. 

On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:47:03 PM UTC-7, Justin Israel wrote:

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017, 5:49 AM jettam <justin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to capture the contents of this text document so I can operate on it. The contents is several lines making a paragraph. 

This is the approach I was taking but its not working. Any other suggestions ? 

inFile = r'E:\ProfessionalDevelopment\python\Python Scripting in Maya\week4\famousQuote.txt'

theWholeQuote = ()

with open (inFile,'r') as fin:

    for line in fin:

        theWholeQuote  = (line)

A paragraph implies that it is a number of sentences followed by a newline character. Is that the case for you, or is it really a number of lines, each with their newline character, followed by extra newlines? First we would need to be explicit about what separates your lines or paragraphs. 

Second, are you trying to operate on each line, each paragraph, or to just capture the whole document? 

If you are trying to build up a paragraph by some delimiter, then you should make theWholeQuote a list and then use theWholeQuote.append() to add each component. 

Justin 

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