From JoyceUlysses.txt -- words occurring exactly once
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Jun 4 13:05:10 EDT 2024
On 2024-06-04, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:58:26 -0400 (EDT)
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2024-06-03, Edward Teach via Python-list <python-list at python.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The Gutenburg Project publishes "plain text". That's another
>> > problem, because "plain text" means UTF-8....and that means
>> > unicode...and that means running some sort of unicode-to-ascii
>> > conversion in order to get something like "words". A couple of
>> > hours....a couple of hundred lines of C....problem solved!
>>
>> I'm curious. Why does it need to be converted frum Unicode to ASCII?
>>
>> When you read it into Python, it gets converted right back to
>> Unicode...
> Well.....when using the file linux.words as a useful master list of
> "words".....linux.words is strict ASCII........
I guess I missed the part of the problem description where it said to
use linux.words to decide what a word is. :)
--
Grant
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