Python Chunks and Gaps Chunking is the process of grouping similar words together based on their properties. In the following example, we create chunks by defining a grammar. This grammar suggests following a phrase order like noun, adjective, etc. when…
Python Text Translation Translating text from one language to another is increasingly common for websites catering to international audiences. The Python package that helps us achieve this is called translate. This package can be installed as follows. It provides translation…
Nice Printing of Numbers in Python The Python module pprint provides appropriate printing formatting for various data objects in Python. These data objects can represent dictionaries or even objects containing JSON data. In the following example, we can see what…
Getting a Corpus with Python A corpus is a collection of text documents. A collection is called a corpus. One well-known corpus is the Gutenberg Corpus, which contains approximately 25,000 free e-books and is hosted at In the following…
Python Text Processing State Machine A state machine is a program designed to control the flow of an application. It is a directed graph consisting of a set of nodes and a set of transition functions. Processing a text file…
Python Sorting by Line Often, we need to sort the contents of a file for analysis. For example, we might want to sort sentences written by different students alphabetically by their names. This involves sorting the first character of a…
Python Text Wrapping Text wrapping is necessary when text from a source is not formatted correctly for the available screen width. This can be achieved using the following package, which can be installed in our environment using the following command.…
Reading RSS Feeds with Python RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news websites, blogs, and other online publishers make their content available as RSS feeds. In Python, we use the following packages…
Frequency Distribution in Python When processing text, you often need to count the frequency of a word in a text. You can count words by using the word_tokenize() function and appending the results to a list, as shown in the…
Immutability of Python Strings In Python, string data types are immutable. This means that the value of a string cannot be updated. We can verify this by trying to update a portion of the string, which will result in an…