That's much better than what I was about to post: for s in stoplist: string.join(mystr.split(s, ""))
Berlin: Why are you keen on avoiding split()? On 1/17/08, Karthik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about - > > for s in stoplist: > string.replace(mystr, s, "") > > Hope this should work. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > BerlinBrown > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:55 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Replace stop words (remove words from a string) > > if I have an array of "stop" words, and I want to replace those values > with something else; in a string, how would I go about doing this. I > have this code that splits the string and then does a difference but I > think there is an easier approach: > > E.g. > > mystr = > > kljsldkfjksjdfjsdjflkdjslkf[BAD]Kkjkkkkjkkjk[BAD]LSKJFKSFJKSJF;L[BAD2]kjsldf > sd; > > if I have an array stop_list = [ "[BAD]", "[BAD2]" ] > > I want to replace the values in that list with a zero length string. > > I had this before, but I don't want to use this approach; I don't want > to use the split. > > line_list = line.lower().split() > res = list(set(keywords_list).difference(set(ENTITY_IGNORE_LIST))) > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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