On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:56 , <subhabangal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Group, > > I have a list of tuples, as follows, > > list1=[u"('koteeswaram/BHPERSN engaged/NA himself/NA in/NA various/NA > philanthropic/NA activities/NA ','class1')", u"('koteeswaram/BHPERSN is/NA > a/NA very/NA nice/NA person/NA ','class1')", u"('koteeswaram/BHPERSN > came/NA to/NA mumbai/LOC but/NA could/NA not/NA attend/NA the/ARTDEF > board/NA meeting/NA ','class1')", u"('the/ARTDEF people/NA of/NA > the/ARTDEF company ABCOMP did/NA not/NA vote/NA for/NA koteeswaram/LOC > ','class2')", u"('the/ARTDEF director AHT of/NA the/ARTDEF company,/NA > koteeswaram/BHPERSN had/NA been/NA advised/NA to/NA take/NA rest/NA for/NA > a/NA while/NA ','class2')", u"('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN arrived/NA > by/NA his/PRNM3PAS private/NA aircraft/NA in/NA mumbai/LOC ','class2')", > u"('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN met/NA the/ARTDEF prime/HPLPERST > minister/AHT of/NA india/LOCC over/NA some/NA issues/NA ','class2')", > u"('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN is/NA trying/NA to/NA set/NA up/NA a/NA > plant/NA in/NA uk/LOCC ','class3')", u"('animesh/BHPERSN chauh > an/BHPERSN is/NA trying/NA to/NA launch/NA a/NA new/ABCOMP office/AHT > in/NA burdwan/LOC ','class3')", u"('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN is/NA > trying/NA to/NA work/NA out/NA the/ARTDEF launch/NA of/NA a/NA new/ABCOMP > product/NA in/NA india/LOCC ','class3')"] >
What you have is a list of strings, not tuples. > > I want to make it like, > > [('koteeswaram/BHPERSN engaged/NA himself/NA in/NA various/NA > philanthropic/NA activities/NA','class1'), > ('koteeswaram/BHPERSN is/NA a/NA very/NA nice/NA person/NA ','class1'), > ('koteeswaram/BHPERSN came/NA to/NA mumbai/LOC but/NA could/NA not/NA > attend/NA the/ARTDEF board/NA meeting/NA','class1'), ('the/ARTDEF people/NA > of/NA the/ARTDEF company ABCOMP did/NA not/NA vote/NA for/NA > koteeswaram/LOC ','class2'), ('the/ARTDEF director AHT of/NA > the/ARTDEF company,/NA koteeswaram/BHPERSN had/NA been/NA advised/NA to/NA > take/NA rest/NA for/NA a/NA while/NA ','class2'), ('animesh/BHPERSN > chauhan/BHPERSN arrived/NA by/NA his/PRNM3PAS private/NA aircraft/NA in/NA > mumbai/LOC','class2'), ('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN met/NA the/ARTDEF > prime/HPLPERST minister/AHT of/NA india/LOCC over/NA some/NA > issues/NA','class2'), ('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN is/NA trying/NA > to/NA set/NA up/NA a/NA plant/NA in/NA uk/LOCC','class3'), > ('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN is/NA trying/NA to/NA launch/NA a/NA > new/ABCOMP office/AHT in/NA burdwan/LOC','class3'), > ('animesh/BHPERSN chauhan/BHPERSN is/NA trying/NA to/NA work/NA out/NA > the/ARTDEF launch/NA of/NA a/NA new/ABCOMP product/NA in/NA > india/LOCC','class3')] > > I tried to make it as follows, > list2=[] > for i in train_sents: > a1=unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', i).encode('ascii','ignore') > a2=a1.replace('"',"") > list2.append(a2) > and, > > for i in list1: > a3=i[1:-1] > list2.append(a3) > In both of these you seem to be trying to remove the double quote marks from the strings, but they aren't part of the strings in the first place, just delimiters. > > > but not helping. > If any one may kindly suggest how may I approach it? > Check out the documentation for ast.literal_eval > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list