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Function preprocess_text does not seem to strip punctuations #15

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govindgnair23 opened this issue Apr 15, 2019 · 0 comments

govindgnair23 commented Apr 15, 2019 •

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def preprocess_text(text):
    text = ' '.join(word.lower() for word in text.split(" "))
    text = re.sub(r"([.,!?])", r" \1 ", text)
    text = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z.,!?]+", r" ", text)
    return text

Calling preprocess_text('Are you a, boy or a girl?') returns:

''are you a , boy or a girl ? "

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