# adapted from Alex Martelli's example in "Re-learning Python" # http://www.aleax.it/Python/accu04_Relearn_Python_alex.pdf # (slide 41) Ex: lines-by-word file index # tag::INDEX[] """Build an index mapping word -> list of occurrences""" import re import sys WORD_RE = re.compile(r'\w+') index = {} with open(sys.argv[1], encoding='utf-8') as fp: for line_no, line in enumerate(fp, 1): for match in WORD_RE.finditer(line): word = match.group() column_no = match.start() + 1 location = (line_no, column_no) index.setdefault(word, []).append(location) # <1> # display in alphabetical order for word in sorted(index, key=str.upper): print(word, index[word]) # end::INDEX[]