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content/adrien_chacon/sources/1_oulipo_scripts/perec.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# this is a shebang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
+
+'''
+This script looks at each word in a given text, if the word contains the letters of Perec, the word is printed to another textfile
+Made for OLA #5, Paris, 15-17 décembre 2017
+'''
+
+# import external modules
+import re
+import string
+
+# define textfiles
+source = open("../data/1984_all.txt", 'r')
+destination = open("../data/perec.txt", 'w')
+
+# define regular expression
+regex = r'(\w*p+\w*e+\w*r+\w*e+\w*c+)'
+
+
+# write title to destination
+destination.write("Source: George Orwell's 1984\n\n\n")
+
+# search for pattern in source, print in terminal & write to destination
+sentences = []
+# read source line by line
+for line in source:
+	# split each line into list of words, split on white spaces
+	words = line.split(" ")
+	for word in words:
+		# look if pattern is in word
+		if re.search(regex, word):
+			# if yes, print word in terminal
+			print(word)
+			# write word to file without punctuation
+			destination.write(word.strip('\., \,')+'\n')
+
+# close textfiles
+source.close()
+destination.close()