Zethex wrote:
> At the moment i'm doing a piece of work for school and I'm stuck at the
> moment.
>
> I have a list of words, for example:
>
> Sentence = ['A', 'dog', 'walked', 'across', 'the', 'street']
>
> I have another list which I need to use to replace certain words, and its
> in the form of:
>
> synonyms = [
> [canine, [dog, puppy, bulldog]],
> [ road, [street, avenue, court]]
> ]
> What the procedure must do is replace dog with canine, and street with
> road. Therefore if a word is in the sentence and appears on the right side
> of the list entry, replace it with the left entry.
>
> I can't seem to find a help file with what I'm after. I'm just wondering
> if anyone can help me on the right track on how to start this procedure,
> maybe not an answer but just a little help on how to get started as I'm
> complete stuck right now.
See if you can put the synonyms in a dict:
syndict = {"dog": "canine", "puppy": "canine", ..., "court": "road"}
The code to achieve that should consist of two nested loops.
You can then look up a word easily with
word = syndict.get(word, word)
Put that into another loop iterating over the words of the original sentence
and build the new sentence by appending to a fresh list.
Peter
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