Reading text file to array

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I am trying to read a file into an array, my current implementation is only returning the first line of the .txt file

import re def GetText(filename): print('Opening file...') text_file= open(filename,'r') lines = text_file.readlines() #each line is appended to a list with text_file: one_string= text_file.read().replace('\n', '') print(one_string)

My question is: How do I read a text file to an array?

What makes you think after using readlines() and reaching the end of file , you would get anything other than empty string from text_file.read() ? — Anand S Kumar
– Anand S Kumar, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 14:59
IanAuld: He is trying to read sentences rather than just the lines of the file... — Tommy
– Tommy, Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 15:26
Use a context manager to handle the file! Also, variable and function names should generally follow the lower_case_with_underscores style. — AMC
– AMC, Commented Nov 28, 2019 at 1:08

Tommy · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-29 15:02:30Z

Instead of reading the whole file a line at atime why not read it all in one go and then split based on full stops (periods) in order to get sentences... ie:

text_file= open(filename,'r') data=text_file.read() listOfSentences = data.split(".")

He sighed, "Sure. Fine. Whatever." would not split evenly along the . character.

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