'''
    printwords.py

    Jeff Ondich, 22 April 2009

    This program prints the "words" found in a file
    specified by the user.  Here, a "word" is a contiguous
    block of non-whitespace characters.
'''

import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print 'Usage: %s filename' % sys.argv[0]
    sys.exit(1)

fileName = sys.argv[1]
theFile = open(fileName, 'r')

for line in theFile:
    line = line.strip() # removes whitespace from ends
    words = line.split() # create a list of whitespace-delimited chunks
    for word in words:
        print word

theFile.close()