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