import argparse import json parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( '-f', help='path to .txt file containing word embedding information;', type=str, default='glove.6B.300d.txt') args = parser.parse_args() lines = [] with open(args.f, 'r') as inf: lines = inf.readlines() lines = [i.split() for i in lines] vocab = [i[0] for i in lines] emb_floats = [[float(n) for n in i[1:]] for i in lines] emb_floats.append([0.0 for _ in range(300)]) # for unknown word js = {'vocab': vocab, 'emba': emb_floats} with open('embs.json', 'w') as ouf: json.dump(js, ouf)