Question

Could someone help with this function Python? It involves opening and reading from a text file.

Write a function that returns a list k of words that start at word i of the text.

def extractWord(text, i=0, k=None)

Answer 1

CODE:

def extractWord(text, i=0, k=None):

k=[] # defining an empty list

word="" # defining an empty string

with open(text, 'r') as myfile: # reading file

data = myfile.read() # storing all text of file in data

for x in data: # for every character in data

if x == " " or x == "\n": # if character is space or line change (\n)

k.append(word) # word is added in list

word="" # word string is emptied

x="" # character is emptied

word=word+x # word + character, making full word

return k

filename = 'HomeworkLib.txt'

print(extractWord(filename))

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