""" This script converts the data from the raw data folder to a CSV file. Usage: make 20_newsgroups python convert.py """ import csv import os import re DATASET_PATH = "20_newsgroups" OUTPUT_FILE = "20newsgroups.csv" TRAIN_OUTPUT_FILE = "train.csv" TEST_OUTPUT_FILE = "test.csv" def run(): """ Main function to run the script. """ class_list = os.listdir(DATASET_PATH) class_list.sort() rows = [] for class_name in class_list: doc_list = os.listdir(os.path.join(DATASET_PATH, class_name)) for doc_name in doc_list: doc = parse_document(read_document(class_name, doc_name)) doc["label"] = class_list.index(class_name) # Skip empty documents if doc["text"]: rows.append(doc) save_csv(rows) def read_document(class_name, doc_name): """ Read the content of a document in the corpus. """ doc_path = os.path.join(DATASET_PATH, class_name, doc_name) with open(doc_path, "r", encoding="ISO-8859-15") as fin: content = fin.read() return content def save_csv(rows, fname=OUTPUT_FILE): """ Save the processed data into a CSV file. """ with open(fname, "w", encoding="utf8") as f: writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=rows[0].keys()) writer.writeheader() for row in rows: writer.writerow(row) def parse_document(doc): """ Parses a document into a dictionary """ header_start = 0 header_end = doc.find("\n\n") body_start = header_end + 2 header = doc[header_start:header_end] body = doc[body_start:] return { "from": parse_header(header, "From"), "subject": parse_header(header, "Subject"), "organization": parse_header(header, "Organization"), "text": body, } def parse_header(header, param): """ Obtains the value of a parameter from the header """ try: return re.search(param + r": (.+)\n", header, re.IGNORECASE).group(1) except AttributeError: return None if __name__ == "__main__": run()