Kevin Glover wrote: > I am working on a program that is written in Python 2.7 to be compatible > with the POS tagger that I import from Pattern. The tagger identifies all > the nouns in a text. I need to exclude from the tagger any text that is > within quotation marks, and also any word that begins with an upper case > letter (including words at the beginning of sentences). > > Any advice on coding that would be gratefully received. Thanks.
How about removing them afterwards? >>> def skip_quoted(pairs): ... quoted = False ... for a, b in pairs: ... if a == '"': ... quoted = not quoted ... elif not quoted: ... yield a, b ... >>> from pattern.en import tag >>> [p for p in skip_quoted(tag('Did you say "Hello world"?')) if not p[0] [0].isupper()] [(u'you', u'PRP'), (u'say', u'VB'), (u'?', u'.')] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list