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Data csv file into different text files with Python - Bambi - Jun-10-2017
I'm a beginner in programming, but for a Dutch text categorization experiment I want to turn every instance (row) of a csv file into separate .txt files. The texts make up my dataset which has to be analyzed by a NLP tool. The header of my csv looks like this: ID Label Taaloefening1 Taaloefening2
Each instance has text in either the column 'Taaloefening1' or in the column 'Taaloefening2'. Now I need to save the text per instance in a .txt file and the name of the file needs to be the id and the label.
I was hoping I could to this automatically by programming a script in Python by using the csv module. I may have an idea about how to save the text into a .txt file, but I have no idea how to take the id and label, which match the text, as the file name.
Any ideas?
RE: Data csv file into different text files with Python - Ofnuts - Jun-11-2017
A file name is just a string that you can create by splicing other strings. So assuming you can read the CSV line into id, label and data,
with open(id+'_'+label+'.txt','w') as linefile: linefile.write(data)