read_wiki_file.py

if __name__ == '__main__':
    o = open("wiki_abstracts.txt", "w+", encoding='utf-8')
    f = open("enwiki-latest-abstract.xml", "r", encoding='utf-8')

    s = ""
    for line in f:
        try:
            #if "<url>" in line:
                #s += line.replace("<url>","").replace("</url>","")
            if "<abstract>" in line:
                o.write(s + line.replace("<abstract>","").replace("</abstract>",""))
                s = ""
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            pass