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exercises-in-programming-style/19-plugins/plugins-src/words1.py
2013-10-18 16:59:09 -07:00

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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 []
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 []
stop_words.extend(list(string.ascii_lowercase))
return [w for w in word_list if not w in stop_words]