REQUESTING HELP WITH IMPORTING A .TXT FILE TO A PYTHON TO GENERATE RANDOM WORDS

this is my current file. i am working out of a remote github repo in VScode, and windows. when i pull up ubuntu terminal in VS, it puts me in the path /mnt/Users/My_Username

I am trying to import a file provided called words.txt (really just the 1000 word list from MIT)

HERE IS MY CODE AND THANK YOU

"""Word Finder: finds random words from a dictionary."""

import random

class WordFinder:

def __init__(self, "megoshmego/bootcamp_python/words.txt"):

"""Read dictionary and reports number of words"""

dict_file = open("megoshmego/bootcamp_python/words.txt")

self.words = self.parse(dict_file)

print(f"{len(self.words)} words read")

def parse(self, dict_file):

"""Parse dict_file -> list of words"""

return [w.strip() for w in dict_file]

def random(self):

"""Return random word."""

return random.choice(self.words)

PARAMETERS FOR THE PROJECT

Random Word

Youll need to make a class that works like this:

it is instantiated with a path to a file on disk that contains words, one word per line

it reads that file, and makes an attribute of a list of those words

it prints out [num-of-words-read] words read

(it doesnt need to do all of this directly in the __init__ method; it might be a good idea for the __init__ method to call other functions to do some of this.)

it provides a method, random(), which returns a random word from that list of words

Note: the random method should not re-read the list of words each time; it should work with the already-read-in list of words.

For example, assume you have a file at /Users/student/words.txt that looks like this:

cat dog porcupine 

Working with your class should work like this:

>>> wf = WordFinder("/Users/student/words.txt") 3 words read >>> wf.random() 'cat' >>> wf.random() 'cat' >>> wf.random() 'porcupine' >>> wf.random() 'dog' 

Some notes:

Youll need to learn how to read files in Python you can look at the documentation at http://python.org as a good place to start

When Python reads files line-by-line, it still keeps the newline character at the end of each line. Make sure you take that off so that when you find a random word, you return it as cat, not cat

You can make a list of words yourself, or use the words.txt file in the starter code if youre not on Windows, your computer already has a giant list of English words! On OSX, this is at /usr/share/dict/words