app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:22:35 +0200
changeset 2473 5cf0625dfa73
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Changed the Survey public view to give a preview of the Survey. Also changed the access rights for deleting a Survey because of the possible invalid references problem. Added two TODO's to the _public method. The first one involves enabling the SurveyForm to generate a form without passing along the Logic since it is only used to retrieve the Survey entity which we already have available. The second one involves a brief discussion about the getFields method's functionality and name.

# 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)