chad <cdal...@gmail.com> writes: > Let's say that I have an article. What I want to do is read in this > file and have the program skip over ever instance of the words "the", > "and", "or", and "but". What would be the general strategy for > attacking a problem like this?
Something like (untested): stopwords = set (('and', 'or', 'but')) def goodwords(): for line in file: for w in line.split(): if w.lower() not in stopwords: yield w Removing punctuation is left as an exercise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list