Deleted unneeded comments and checks

18-no-commitment/plugins-src/words1.py

@@ -1,31 +1,13 @@
 import sys, re, string
 
 def extract_words(path_to_file):
-    """
-    Takes a path to a file and returns the non-stop
-    words, after properly removing nonalphanumeric chars
-    and normalizing for lower case
-    """
-    if type(path_to_file) is not str or not path_to_file:
-        return []
-
-    try:
-        with open(path_to_file) as f:
-            str_data = f.read()
-    except IOError as e:
-        print "I/O error({0}) when opening {1}: {2}".format(e.errno, path_to_file, e.strerror)
-        return []
-    
+    with open(path_to_file) as f:
+        str_data = f.read()
     pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+')
     word_list = pattern.sub(' ', str_data).lower().split()
 
-    try:
-        with open('../stop_words.txt') as f:
-            stop_words = f.read().split(',')
-    except IOError as e:
-        print "I/O error({0}) when opening ../stops_words.txt: {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror)
-        return []
-
+    with open('../stop_words.txt') as f:
+        stop_words = f.read().split(',')
     stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
     return [w for w in word_list if not w in stop_words]