Cleaning tweets, nothing is displayed

Question

I'm trying to run the code below to clean a set of tweets in a txt file

I defined the arguments on the command line too but nothing seems to be outputted

Any idea what I may be doing wrong?

Here is the code below:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import os
import re
import string
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk import word_tokenize
from nltk import pos_tag


def clean(path, filename):

    # print("Cleaning "+path)

    filename = CLEANED_DATA + filename.strip()
    WRITE_HANDLER = open(filename, 'wb')
    tweets = dict()
    for line in open('/Users/Mustafa/Desktop/nexalogy/project3.txt',
                 'rb'):
        line = re.sub(r'[.,"!]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)  # removes the characters specified
        line = re.sub(r'^RT[\s]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)  # removes RT
        line = re.sub(r'https?:\/\/.*[\r\n]*', '', line,
                  flags=re.MULTILINE)  # remove link
        line = re.sub(r'[:]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)
        line = filter(lambda x: x in string.printable, line)  # filter non-ascii characers

        new_line = ''
        for i in line.split():  # remove @ and #words, punctuataion
            if not i.startswith('@') and not i.startswith('#') and i \
                not in string.punctuation:
                new_line += i + ' '
        line = new_line

        # # Do sentence correction

        if new_line in tweets:
            continue
        else:
            tweets[new_line] = 1
        if len(new_line.strip()) > 0:
           WRITE_HANDLER.write(new_line + '''

''')
    return filename


DATA_FOLDER = sys.argv[1]
CLEANED_DATA = sys.argv[2]
for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(DATA_FOLDER):  # gets all the files from 
subfolders recrsively
    for name in files:
        absolute_path = os.path.join(root, name)
        if os.path.isfile(absolute_path) and name != '.DS_Store':
        filename = clean(absolute_path, name)

File : Project3.txt

{"created_at":"Tue Oct 04 17:16:30 +0000 2016","id":783355126945722368,"id_str":"783355126945722368","text":"RT @Jacquiecharles: USAID providing $400,000 in initial assistance for humanitarian partners (not GOH) to rapidly provide critical relief.\u2026","truncated":false,"entities":{"hashtags":[],"symbols":[],"user_mentions":[{"screen_name":"Jacquiecharles","name":"Jacqueline Charles","id":15360434,"id_str":"15360434","indices":[3,18]}],"urls":[]},"metadata":{"iso_language_code":"en","result_type":"recent"},"source":"Twitter for iPhone<\/a>","in_reply_to_status_id":null,"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_user_id":null,"in_reply_to_user_id_str":null,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"user":{"id":635031678,"id_str":"635031678","name":"Tracie Hamilton","screen_name":"TracieHamilton8","location":"","description":"Leaning & depending on Him everyday","url":null,"entities":{"description":{"urls":[]}},"protected":false,"followers_count":1929,"friends_count":715,"listed_count":63,"created_at":"Fri Jul 13 23:39:46 +0000 2012","favourites_count":27603,"utc_offset":null,"time_zone":null,"geo_enabled":true,"verified":false,"statuses_count":17433,"lang":"en","contributors_enabled":false,"is_translator":false,"is_translation_enabled":false,"profile_background_color":"C0DEED","profile_background_image_url":"http:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme1\/bg.png","profile_background_image_url_https":"https:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme1\/bg.png","profile_background_tile":false,"profile_image_url":"http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/575645183288610817\/5vJNgPld_normal.jpeg","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/575645183288610817\/5vJNgPld_normal.jpeg","profile_link_color":"0084B4","profile_sidebar_border_color":"C0DEED","profile_sidebar_fill_color":"DDEEF6","profile_text_color":"333333","profile_use_background_image":true,"has_extended_profile":false,"default_profile":true,"default_profile_image":false,"following":false,"follow_request_sent":false,"notifications":false},"geo":null,"coordinates":null,"place":null,"contributors":null,"retweeted_status":{"created_at":"Tue Oct 04 01:27:02 +0000 2016","id":783116185726357504,"id_str":"783116185726357504"

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Chris Rouffer Chris Rouffer · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16T14:57:11

Here is a fully working version:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys
import os
import re
import string

def clean(inputDir, outputFile):

    # print("Cleaning "+path)

    WRITE_HANDLER = open(outputFile, 'wb')
    tweets = dict()
    for line in open(inputDir + './project3.json','rb'):
        # print "Before" + line
        line = re.sub(r'[.,"!]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)  # removes the characters specified
        line = re.sub(r'^RT[\s]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)  # removes RT
        line = re.sub(r'https?:\/\/.*[\r\n]*', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)  # remove link
        line = re.sub(r'[:]+', '', line, flags=re.MULTILINE)
        line = filter(lambda x: x in string.printable, line)  # filter non-ascii characers

        new_line = ''
        for i in line.split():  # remove @ and #words, punctuataion
            if not i.startswith('@') and not i.startswith('#') and i not in string.punctuation:
                new_line += i + ' '
        line = new_line

        # # Do sentence correction

        if new_line in tweets:
            continue
        else:
            tweets[new_line] = 1
        if len(new_line.strip()) > 0:
            #print  "Writing new line"
            WRITE_HANDLER.write(new_line + '''''')
    return outputFile


DATA_FOLDER = sys.argv[1]
CLEANED_DATA = sys.argv[2]
clean(DATA_FOLDER, CLEANED_DATA)

You invoke it by:

python clean.py inputDirectory outputFileName

Cleaning tweets, nothing is displayed

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