routine that makes chapters out of books from project gutemberg

make_chapter_files.py

book_id = '\\174.txt'          #What book are we processing?
book_name = book_dir + book_id #Location of book

#Open the book
book = open(book_name, "r", encoding="utf8") 
#Assign the book a name as string
book = str(book.read()) 
#Use regex to split the book into chapters by finding instances of the word CHAPTER
chapters = re.split("CHAPTER ", book)
#Remove first 21 CHAPTER instances since they are just fluff
del(chapters[0:20])
#Loops for the number of chapters in the book, starting at chapter 1
for i in range(1, len(chapters)+1):
    writeBook = open("{}.txt".format(i), "w+", encoding="utf8") #Make a new book
    writeBook.write(chapters[i-1]) #Write on book with current chapter content
    writeBook.close() #Closes the book