Create Utils.py

Utils.py

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+'''
+Utility functions for the Climate Change Radio Script Generator
+'''
+import nltk
+import string
+# Download the necessary NLTK data
+nltk.download('punkt')
+# Function to clean the generated paragraph
+def clean_paragraph(entry):
+    paragraphs = entry.split('\n')
+    for i in range(len(paragraphs)):
+        split_sentences = nltk.tokenize.sent_tokenize(paragraphs[i], language='english')
+        if i == len(paragraphs) - 1 and split_sentences[:1][-1] not in string.punctuation:
+            paragraphs[i] = " ".join(split_sentences[:-1])
+    return capitalize_first_char("\n".join(paragraphs))
+# Function to capitalize the first character of a string
+def capitalize_first_char(entry):
+    for i in range(len(entry)):
+        if entry[i].isalpha():
+            return entry[:i] + entry[i].upper() + entry[i + 1:]
+    return entry