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jackie2jet
jackie2jet

Reputation: 39

How to slice different verb tenses word ending with -ed,-ing in a list?

So here is the sample list:
[work,worked,working,play,works,lotus]
I want to slice the -ed,-ing,-s form of work,the result should be like this:
[work,play,lotus]
So,how can i achieve that with pure python code since the NLTK approach seemed to be inaccurate?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1675

Answers (3)

Akash Wankhede
Akash Wankhede

Reputation: 618

You can simply do this:

List = ['work','worked','working','play']

[item for item in List if not item.endswith(("ed", "ing"))]

Upvotes: 0

Manjunath
Manjunath

Reputation: 150

In python, you can use filter to remove values which ends with ing or ed.

your_list = ['work', 'worked', 'working', 'play']
print filter(lambda i: not i.endswith(('ing', 'ed')), your_list)

it returns a list.

['work', 'play']

Upvotes: 1

Sumit S Chawla
Sumit S Chawla

Reputation: 3580

You can use the below code:

Code:

from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
stemmer = PorterStemmer()

List = ['work','worked','working','play']
List = [stemmer.stem(token) for token in List]
List1=[]
for token in List:
    if token not in List1:
        List1.append(token)

Output:

['work', 'play']

Upvotes: 1

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