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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module to encapsulate common functions for exercise01.
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import string
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def read_plaintext(file_path):
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def read_text(file_path):
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"""
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funciton to read plaintext from a file into a string variable.
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Skips non-alphabetic characters (including whitespace) and converts the rest to lower case.
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ def read_plaintext(file_path):
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txt = ""
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with open(file_path, "r") as _file:
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for line in _file:
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for char in line:
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for char in line.lower():
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if char in string.ascii_letters:
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txt += char
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return txt
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