base.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Extensions to Abstract base classes in ``textblob.base``"""
from __future__ import absolute_import

from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod

# provide all base classes for ``textblob_de``
from textblob.blob import BaseBlob
from textblob.base import BaseNPExtractor, BaseParser
from textblob.base import BaseSentimentAnalyzer
from textblob.base import BaseTagger, BaseTokenizer
from textblob.base import DISCRETE, CONTINUOUS


# Testing phase - if found useful, this baseclass could be merged into
# textblob.base

##### LEMMATIZER #####

class BaseLemmatizer(metaclass=ABCMeta):

    """Abstract base class from which all Lemmatizer classes inherit.
    Descendant classes must implement a ``lemmatize(text)`` method that returns
    a WordList of Word object with updated lemma properties.

    .. versionadded:: 0.2.3 (``textblob_de``)

    """

    @abstractmethod
    def lemmatize(self, text):
        """Return a list of (lemma, tag) tuples."""
        return