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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#Words Of Wisdom
+# output some random text from my journal
+
+import os
+import filetype #for filetype (extension and mime type)
+import chardet #for getting encoding
+import subprocess
+
+total_text = ''
+
+def addSampleFileIfTxt(filepath):
+    global total_text
+    if v: print('checking {}'.format(filepath))
+    if os.path.isfile(filepath):
+        f = open(filepath, 'rb')
+        fb = f.read() #file data (bytes)
+        enc = str(chardet.detect(fb)['encoding'])
+        ftype = filetype.guess(filepath)
+        if v: print('filetype: {}'.format(str(ftype)))
+        if v: print('encoding: {}'.format(enc))
+        if enc in ['ascii','utf-8']:
+            if v: print(fb)
+            total_text += str(fb)
+        elif ftype.extension == 'odt':
+            total_text += subprocess.run(['odt2txt', filepath]).stdout
+        else:
+            if v: print('{} is not txt')
+    else: 
+            if v: print('not file')
+
+
+
+paths=['/home/thomas/doc/j/', '/home/thomas/_poetry', '/home/thomas/doc/_journal_2019'] #the paths to scan recursively for files from which to grab text
+samplefiles=[] #the individual files we want to grab text from
+
+v=True #verbose 
+
+for p in paths:
+        if v: print('path {}'.format(p))
+        if os.path.isdir(p):
+                for root,dirs,files in os.walk(p):
+                        if v: print('walk {}: {} files, {} dirs'.format(root, len(files), len(dirs)))
+                        for f in files:
+                            addSampleFileIfTxt(root + '/' + f)
+        else:
+               addSampleFileIfTxt(p)
+
+print(total_text)
+#for f in samplefiles:
+#    print(f)
+
+
+
+