Question

I am saving all the words from a file like so:

     sentence = " "
   fileName = sys.argv[1]
   fileIn = open(sys.argv[1],"r")
   for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
      for word in line.split(" "):
         sentence += word

Everything works okay when outputting it except the formatting.
I am moving source code, is there any way I can save the indention?

Answer 1

When you invoke line.split(), you remove all leading spaces.

What’s wrong with just reading the file into a single string?

textWithIndentation = open(sys.argv[1], "r").read()