42 lines
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1.6 KiB
Python
42 lines
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1.6 KiB
Python
#!/usr/bin/python3
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# A script to parse all text files in a directory and remove blank lines
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# Copyright (C) 2022 Louis Lacoste
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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import argparse
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from pathlib import Path
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parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
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parser.add_argument("directory", metavar="DIRECTORY", help="The directory in where are stored the text files")
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args = parser.parse_args()
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path = Path(args.directory)
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textFiles = list(path.glob("*.txt"))
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print(textFiles)
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for textFile in textFiles:
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if textFile.exists() and not textFile.is_dir():
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fileContentString = ""
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fileContentList = []
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with textFile.open(encoding="utf8") as currentTextFile:
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fileContentString = currentTextFile.read()
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fileContentList = [line for line in fileContentString.split('\n') if line.strip()]
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print(fileContentString)
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print(fileContentList)
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with textFile.with_name(textFile.name+"noemptylines").open(mode="w", encoding="utf8") as currentTextFile:
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for line in fileContentList:
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currentTextFile.write(f"{line}\n") |