My go-to Python snippets

This is a blog post just for me, but it's all of the Python snippets I repeatedly look up or reference from other parts of my codebase.

Snippets List

• Read File into Words


• Read JSON File into Dict

Read File Into Words

def read_file_into_words(filename: str) -> list[list[str]]:
    """Parse a text file into a 2D list of words, i.e.
        "This is an example file with
        multiple lines of text" becomes
        [["This", "is", "an", "example", "file", "with"],
        "multiple", "lines", "of", "text"].

    Args: …

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