app/django/utils/stopwords.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:46:42 +0000
changeset 208 e076aee6e90f
parent 54 03e267d67478
permissions -rw-r--r--
Take advantage of the Model inheritance provided by polymodel.PolyModel to have Club, School, Sponsor, and Organization actually inherit from the Group Model class, rather than being composed via ReferenceProperties. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga, Sverre Rabbelier, Augie Fackler Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/606

# 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)