app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:15:20 +0000
changeset 170 1fadf6e0348d
parent 54 03e267d67478
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Add /site/user/profile Developer view for editing arbitrary User entities. Update /user/profile edit() view to fix TODO about updating the URL when a POST of the form changes the link_name of the User. Add a Create New User link to the base.html sidebar mock-up.

# 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)