stop-words 2018.7.23

Get list of common stop words in various languages in Python

Table of contents

• Overview

• Available languages

• Installation

• Basic usage

• Python compatibility

Overview

Get list of common stop words in various languages in Python.

Available languages

• Arabic

• Bulgarian

• Catalan

• Czech

• Danish

• Dutch

• English

• Finnish

• French

• German

• Hungarian

• Indonesian

• Italian

• Norwegian

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Romanian

• Russian

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Turkish

• Ukrainian

Installation

stop-words is available on PyPI

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stop-words

So easily install it by pip

$ pip install stop-words

Or by easy_install

$ easy_install stop-words

Another way is by cloning stop-words’s git repo

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/Alir3z4/python-stop-words.git

Then install it by running:

$ python setup.py install

Basic usage

from stop_words import get_stop_words

stop_words = get_stop_words('en')
stop_words = get_stop_words('english')

from stop_words import safe_get_stop_words

stop_words = safe_get_stop_words('unsupported language')

Python compatibility

Python-stop-words has been originally developed for Python 2, but has been ported and tested for Python 3.