add a clean up script to process files

Author: fishercoder1534

Diff for: clean_up.py

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+#!/opt/homebrew/bin/python3
+
+import sys
+
+# how to run this script:
+# chmod +x clean_up.py && ./clean_up.py input.txt output.txt
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    args = sys.argv
+    print("Arguments are: {}".format(args))
+    if len(args) < 3:
+        print("Please provide STAGE argument: gamma or prod!")
+        raise Exception("Please provide required arguments!")
+    
+    in_file = args[1]
+    out_file = args[2]
+
+    with open(in_file) as file:
+        i = 0
+        lines = ""
+        for line in file:
+            if i % 2:
+                lines = lines + line.rstrip() + " "
+            if i % 5 == 0:
+                lines = lines + "\n"
+            i = i + 1
+        print("lines are: {}".format(lines))
+
+    with open(out_file, "w") as out:
+        out.write("%s" % lines)
+
+    print("Finished cleaning up transcripts to this file: {}".format(out_file))
+