# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Random Line Fetcher for Large Datasets This script allows users to randomly fetch and display lines from a large dataset. An index file is created to keep track of the positions of each line in the dataset, allowing for efficient random line retrieval. Author : Guillaume Eckendoerffer Date : 06-07-23 Repository : https://github.com/Eckendoerffer/TorchTrainerFlow/ """ import os import random import json # Path configurations path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) path_dataset = os.path.join(path, "train.txt") path_index = os.path.join(path, "dataset_wiki_index.txt") # Index file # Flag to determine if an offset of one byte should be applied shift_one = True def build_index(): """ Constructs an index for the dataset where each line's starting position is stored. """ index = [] with open(path_dataset, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: offset = 0 for line in f: index.append(offset) offset += len(line.encode('utf-8')) with open(path_index, 'w', encoding="utf8") as f: json.dump(index, f) return index def get_line(file_path, line_number, index, i): """ Fetches a specific line from the dataset using the provided index. """ with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: if shift_one: f.seek(index[line_number] + line_number) else: f.seek(index[line_number]) text = f.readline() show = f"{i}) {text}\n" show += ' ' + '-'*220 + '\n' return show # Build index if it doesn't exist if not os.path.exists(path_index): index = build_index() # Load the index file with open(path_index, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file: index = json.load(file) # Display 10 random lines from the dataset for i in range(10): print(get_line(path_dataset, random.randint(0, len(index)-1), index, i+1))