remove-punc.py

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import re
import os
import sys
file = sys.argv[1]

path = "./"
lines_nopunc = []

with open(os.path.join(path, file)) as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
    for line in lines:
        line_new = re.sub(r"[\.,\?:;!\"\(\)]", "", line)
        lines_nopunc.append(line_new)

with open(os.path.join(path, file + '.no-punc'), 'w') as the_file:
    for line in lines_nopunc:
        the_file.write('{}'.format(line))