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author Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
date Sat, 16 May 2015 20:13:12 -0700
parents 03ce88daa98d
children 1284c99a94fa
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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
split paragraphs, sentences, etc
"""

# imports
import argparse
import re
import string
import sys


def findall(sub, _string):
    """find all occurances of `sub` in _string"""

    retval = []
    index = 0
    while True:
        try:
            index = _string.index(sub, index)
            retval.append(index)
            index += 1
        except ValueError:
            return retval


def split_paragraphs(text):

    lines = [line.strip() for line in text.strip().splitlines()]
    lines = [line if line else '\n'
             for line in lines]
    text = ' '.join(lines).strip()
    paragraphs = [' '.join(p) for p in text.split('\n')]
    return paragraphs

def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
    """CLI"""

    # parse command line arguments
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
    parser.add_argument('file', nargs='?', type=argparse.FileType('r'), default=sys.stdin)
    options = parser.parse_args(args)

    # preprocess text
    text = options.file.read().strip()
    text = ' '.join(text.split())
    #    paragraphs = split_paragraphs(text)

    ends = '.?!'

    # find all ending punctuation
    indices = {end: findall(text, end) for end in ends}


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()