how to write a code for term that can't begin or end with a stopword

[desul]

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Need your small help for writing a code for selecting a term that can't begin or end with a stopword....

assume stopword list is there .....



is it possible to write using stratwith() and endwith()

[ichabod801]

You could use startswith() and endswith(), but that would probably be a bad idea. I'm assuming 'the' is one of your stop words. Using startswith('the') would trigger on 'theocracy is a form of government', and using endswith('the') would trigger on 'Dirty people need to bathe'.

You would do better to use split() to get a list of words, and then check if the first one (word_list[0]) or the last one (word_list[-1]) is in your list of stop words.

You may also want to use lower() so you can do a case insensitive search. Punctuation is another thing to deal with. That could be done either with translate() or a loop using replace().

So try some of those out, and come back with your code if you run into any problems. Reading the text at the top of the homework forum page would be helpful.

[wavic]

Punctuation could be removed with word.strip(string.punctualtion) from string module. It contains all those symbols: !"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~. Or just word.strip("'.,@?!-")

[nilamo]

Or a regular expression:

import re

regex = re.compile(r"\W")
print(regex.sub("", "how do!you(do?"))
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