urllib.quote() is needed by the soc/logic/site/map.py work, so import it from
the Python 2.5.2 sources. The entire urllib.py is not supported by Google
App Engine (yet?), since it relies on 'import socket' (App Engine provides a
separate urlfetch module instead).
Patch by: Todd Larsen
Review by: to-be-reviewed
# 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)