Need assistance with a questions in regards to python:
1. function occurs(name, word) which looks for a word in the file with name
name.
2. for each occurrence of the word we want to display its context by showing
the 5 words (or so) preceding and following the occurrence, e.g. '... a man to
set the river on fire. He had ...' for the first occurrence of 'river' in
'innocents.txt'.
3. since the results may be long, we want to collect them all, and write them
to a file whose name should be 'occurs'+name.
Hint: at first ignore writing the results to a file. Simply collect all
material in a string which you print to the screen. Then writing it to a file
will be simple. To get both the word and its context you need an indexed loop
through the words. Use the stripw() function we saw on individual words to make
finding hits more accurate (e.g. the program found 'river.' above). Finally,
the join() method will come in handy to reconstruct the context as a string.
Link to final product: http://imgur.com/q1aAAhp
For my program this is what i have so far, I am kinda lost at this point if you
can please guide me to help resolve this program.
def lines(name, word):
'print all lines of name in which word occurs'
infile = open(name, 'r')
lst = infile.readlines()
infile.close()
for i in range(len(lst)):
line = lst[i]
if wordin(word, line):
w = ('Word found in line {}:'.format(i))
#x = (lst[i+1])
y = lst[i]
print (''.join(y))_______________________________________________
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