Is that... is that a cucco? Sure it is!
Cucco is here to help you to normalize those nasty texts. Removing extra whitespaces is not that hard, right? What about stop words? They make no good... oh, and don't even mention emojis!
This little friend will do the hard work for you. Just set it up and let him peck all over your text.
The easiest way to get a cucco is by using pip:
$ pip install cucco
But sometimes... sometimes you want to go wild and get the biggest... No, the best!... No, THE MIGHTY cucco!
To do so, you may use Git. Clone the repository from Github and do it all the hard way:
$ git clone https://github.com/davidmogar/cucco.git $ cd cucco $ python setup.py install
Now that you have a cucco, I'll let him give you all the details.
Cucuco, cuco cuco cucucuco, CUCCO!
—Cucco
So true... so true...[tears falling down my face]. Just allow me to add some details.
The next sample code shows how to normalize a short text:
from cucco import Cucco
cucco = Cucco(language='en')
print(cucco.normalize('Who let the cucco out?'))This would apply all normalizations to the text
Who let the cucco out?. The output for this normaliations would be
the next one:
let cucco
It's also possible to send a list of normalizations to apply, which will be executed in order.
from cucco import Cucco
cucco = Cucco(language='en')
normalizations = [
'remove_extra_whitespaces',
('replace_punctuation', {'replacement': ' '})
]
print(cucco.normalize('Who let the cucco out?', normalizations))This is the output:
Who let the cucco out
Finally, if you only need to apply one normalization, use one of these methods:
- remove_accent_marks
- remove_extra_whitespaces
- remove_stop_words
- replace_charachters
- replace_emails
- replace_emojis
- replace_hyphens
- replace_punctuation
- replace_symbols
- replace_urls
You never know when a cucco will learn a new trick but, at the moment, they can remove stop words in these thirteen languages:
| Language | Accronym | Language | Accronym | Language | Accronym |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danish | da | German | de | Portuguese | pt |
| Dutch | nl | Hungarian | hu | Russian | ru |
| English | en | Italian | it | Spanish | es |
| Finnish | fi | Norwegian | no | Swedish | sv |
| French | fr |
Are you a breeder? No? Don't worry, you can still help.
Maybe you have a good new feature to add. Maybe is not even good. It doesn't matter! It is always good to share ideas, isn't it? Just go for it! Pull request are warmly welcome.
Not in the mood of implement it yourself? You can still create an issue and tell about it there. Feedback is always great!