app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:50:22 +0000
changeset 432 1851d67a1004
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Add a generic method for getting a Keyname This patch will make logic/key_name.py obsolete in the future when everything is compliant with base.logic. This also makes the naming of already compliant logic modules generic and also fixes the _name field to be consistent with the naming in key_name.py. Note: This does not use Group/Sponsor, Group/School, Group/Organisation or Group/Club. Patch by: "Lennard de Rijk" <rijk0214@gmail.com> Reviewed by: Sverre Rabbelier

# Performance note: I benchmarked this code using a set instead of
# a list for the stopwords and was surprised to find that the list
# performed /better/ than the set - maybe because it's only a small
# list.

stopwords = '''
i
a
an
are
as
at
be
by
for
from
how
in
is
it
of
on
or
that
the
this
to
was
what
when
where
'''.split()

def strip_stopwords(sentence):
    "Removes stopwords - also normalizes whitespace"
    words = sentence.split()
    sentence = []
    for word in words:
        if word.lower() not in stopwords:
            sentence.append(word)
    return u' '.join(sentence)