August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
10h 14m
English
Content preview from Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook
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Cleanup text
When analyzing user-provided text, we are frequently interested only in meaningful words; punctuation, spaces, and conjunctions might easily get in our way. Suppose you want to count word frequencies in a book, you don't want to end up with "world" and "world" being counted as two different words.