app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:06:48 +0000
changeset 1215 b21e40ef8dad
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Hook up the new jquery plugins in base.html and _as_table_row.html A very important todo here is to make loading these plugins only when needed, as to not waste bandwith. This should be trivial to do later on though, so leaving as-is now. Patch by: "Mario Ferraro" <fadinlight@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)