I have to define a function names Correct(), which has two parameters. A list of strings to be tested for misspelled words(this parameter will be my file), and my dictionary, which I have already made called mydictionary. The function should test each word in the first list using the dictionary and the check word() function. correct should return a list of words with all the misspelled words replaced. For example, correct([‘the’, ‘cheif’, ‘stopped’, ‘the’, ‘theif’]) should return the list [‘‘the’, ‘chief’, ‘stopped’, ‘the’, ‘thief’] Then I'm supposed to test the function in the main()
import string # Makes a function to read a file, use empty {} to create an empty dict # then reads the file by using a for loop def make_dict(): file = open ("spellingWords.txt") dictionary = {} for line in file: # Splits the lines in the file as the keys and values, and assigning them as # misspell and spell misspell, spell = string.split(line.strip()) # Assigns the key to the value dictionary[misspell] = spell file.close() return dictionary mydictionary = make_dict() #print mydictionary # Gets an input from the user word = raw_input("Enter word") # Uses the dictionary and the input as the parameters def check_word(word,mydictionary): # Uses an if statement to check to see if the misspelled word is in the # dictionary if word in mydictionary: return mydictionary[word] # If it is not in the dictionary then it will return the word else: return word # Prints the function print check_word(word,mydictionary) def main(): file2 = open ("paragraph.txt") file2.read() thelist = string.split(file2) print thelist def correct(file2,mydictionary): return thelist paragraph = string.join(thelist) print paragraph main() All my other functions work besides my Correct() function and my Main() function. It is also giving me the error 'file object has no attribute split'. Can I get help with my mistakes?
so I corrected it and now have for my main function
def main(): file2 = open ("paragraph.txt") lines = file2.read() thelist = string.split(lines) def correct(file2,mydictionary): while thelist in mydictionary: return mydictionary[thelist] paragraph = string.join(thelist) print correct(file2,mydictionary) however I am now getting the error 'unhashable type: 'list''
