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.
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