im writing a spellchecking program, how do i replace ch in a string..eg..
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what am i doing wrong/what can i do??
import sys
import string
def remove(file): punctuation = string.punctuation for ch in file:
if len(ch) > 1:
print('error - ch is larger than 1 --| {0} |--'.format(ch))
if ch in punctuation:
ch = ' '
return ch
else:
return ch
ref = (open("ref.txt","r"))
test_file = (open("test.txt", "r"))
dictionary = ref.read().split()
file = test_file.read().lower()
file = remove(file)
print(file)
p.s, this is in Python 3.1.2
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