import re file = open("Lyrics.txt", "r") words = file.read() words = re.findall("\S+", words) folder = "temp_files/" for i in range( len(words) - 1 ): new_file = open(folder + words[i] + str(i) + ".html", "w") file_str = """ """ + words[i] + """ """ + words[i+1] + """ """ new_file.write(file_str)