[TriZPUG] A beginners question I am sure

[Ken M]

This is the link to the source file:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/pgwht04.txt

Ken

On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 18:56 -0400, Tim Arnold wrote:
> I may be missing something, but your code looks okay to me. I looked
> for the source text and found a couple of examples that made me wonder
> though--in one the lines were broken and in the other paragraphs were
> set in a single line, but still not all the <hw> parts had <pos>
> parts.
> 
> 
> Can you post a direct link to the file? Or maybe someone else will see
> a problem in the code.  I would have used lists and not kept the files
> open, but that's just a matter of taste--your logic looks right to me.
> --Tim Arnold
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken M <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
>         OK so working on a project (just started) that is for my own
>         academic
>         purposes for now.  Just trying to train myself in python.  The
>         attached
>         code snippet is to convert the websters dictionary (grab
>         specific
>         components) and insert them in a pipe delimmited data file for
>         now.
>         Next will be to a database.
>         
>         When I ran this for a 4.5 MB snippet of the file it worked
>         fine, output
>         file generated output good.  However when I run it for the
>         entirety of
>         the webster.txt file (45 MB) the program runs (well more
>         apropos ends
>         without any error message to me) but the output file I am
>         creating is
>         empty (0 bytes).
>         
>         The purpose for now is to build a subset dictionary file that
>         is nothing
>         more than word and the single letter initialism for word type
>         (n = noun,
>         v = verb, etc.)  Would appreciate insight into why this is not
>         running
>         to completion.  If anyone cares to know, I am running this on
>         a Fedora
>         14 box, I edit and created my .py file with vim and my python
>         installation is python-2.7-8.fc14.1.i686 (output from rpm -q
>         python).
>         
>         Thanks in advance,
>         Ken
>         
>         P.S.  To save bandwidth I did not attach the webster.txt file
>         however if
>         anyone wanted to run this against it themselves it can be
>         acquired
>         through the Project Gutenberg site.
>         
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