#Programmer: Sriram Pemmaraju
#Date: March 13, 2012
#Version 2

# Takes a line s and replaces all punctuation marks given
# in the list punctuationMarks by blanks; returns the modified list
def filterOutPunctuation(punctuationMarks, s):
    for mark in punctuationMarks:
        s = s.replace(mark, " ")

    return s

# Open the file "War and Peace"
fin = open("smallWar.txt", "r")

wordList = []

# List of all non-letter characters, We will replace these characters in each line by blanks
punctuationMarks = map(chr, range(0, ord("A")) + range(ord("Z")+1, ord("a")) + range(ord("z")+1, 127)) 

# Loop that processes each line of the file
for line in fin:
    newLine = filterOutPunctuation(punctuationMarks, line) 
    wordList = wordList + newLine.split()

#Close the input file
fin.close()

#Block of code that produces output
fout = open("dictionary2.txt", "w")
for word in wordList:
	fout.write(word+"\n")
fout.close()