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exercises-in-programming-style/19-no-commitment/plugins-src/words2.py

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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
"""
words = re.findall('[a-z]{2,}', open(path_to_file).read().lower())
stopwords = set(open('../stop_words.txt').read().split(','))
return [w for w in words if w not in stopwords]