Question

How would I do this? I want to iterate through each word and see if it fits certain parameters (for example is it longer than 4 letters..etc. not really important though).

The text file is literally a rambling of text with punctuation and white spaces, much like this posting.

Answer 1

Try split()ing the string.

f = open('your_file')
for line in f:
    for word in line.split():
        # do something

If you want it without punctuation:

f = open('your_file')
for line in f:
    for word in line.split():
        word = word.strip('.,?!')
        # do something