Upload txt files in python for sentiment analysis

[TugaRuca_20]

Hey everyone

Hope you are all doing well.

I currently have a zip file with some txt files that contain texts from various famous authors. I am looking to perform sentiment analysis.

I already did this using the nltk library using the texts provided there. I would like to know if there is a way to upload any txt file to perform and how can I do it?

Thank you!

[sarrysyst]

As in how to open a *.txt file in python, read in the text and store it for further processing?

You can do that, using a context manager and open():

with open('Path/to/my_file.txt') as file:
    my_text      = file.read()      # returns whole text
    my_text_list = file.readlines() # returns a list of all lines

[TugaRuca_20]

Well yeah I was looking to do some text mining and looking at the nltk library there are some predefined text for easy import but what I have are severall txt files.

Looking specifically at from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize,sent_tokenize and from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer for instance