I'm writing a script that takes any text and outputs to a file a list of
duples (k, word) where k is the number of occurrences of word in the text.
The text will contain "words" beginning or ending with non-alphabetic
characters. To strip them off I use string.strip([chars]). My question is
how to use strip just once to get rid of both kinds of quotes, single and
double. It seems necessary to do it something like this:
# L is the original list of "words" in the text.
newL = []
for word in L:
word = lower(word)
newWord = word.strip(".,!?;:&*'=-></#@)(")
newWord2 = newWord.strip('.,!?;:&*"=-></#@)(')
word = newWord2
newL.append(word)
But is it? Have I missed something?
Thanks,
Dick Moores
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