Python Stop Words

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Overview

Get list of common stop words in various languages in Python.

Available languages

• Arabic
• Catalan
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Installation

stop-words is available on PyPi

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stop-words

So easily install it by pip :

$ pip install stop-words

Or by easy_install :

$ easy_install stop-words

Another way is by cloning stop-words's git repo :

$ git clone git://github.com/Alir3z4/python-stop-words.git

Then install it by running: :

$ python setup.py install

Basic usage

from stop_words import get_stop_words

stop_words = get_stop_words('en')
stop_words = get_stop_words('english')

from stop_words import safe_get_stop_words

stop_words = safe_get_stop_words('unsupported language')

Python compatibility

Python-stop-words has been originally developed for Python 2, but has been ported and tested for Python 3.2 to Python 3.4.