politweet / functions /functions.py
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fixed some bugs
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from re import sub
def separate_string(string):
"""
This function returns a list of strings from a string.
Example: separate_string('1. swedish 2. nuclear 3. hello world 4. uha yhd ikv hahd vva 5. ')
returns ['swedish', 'nuclear', 'hello world', 'uha yhd ikv hahd vva', '']
:param string: string to be separated
:return: list of string items
"""
list_string = string.split('.')
list_useable = []
for list_part in list_string:
list_useable.append(list_part.split(' ', 1))
final_list = []
for li in list_useable[1:]:
final_list.append(li[1])
# remove numeric characters and spaces
filter_numeric_regex = '[^a-z]'
final_final_list = []
for li in final_list:
final_final_list.append(sub(filter_numeric_regex, ' ', li).strip())
return final_final_list
def convert_to_tuple(string):
"""
This function converts a string to a tuple.
:param string:
:return: tuple of strings
"""
string = string.strip()
return tuple(string.strip('()').split(', '))
if __name__ == '__main__':
s = ' (politics, government, negative, sweden)'
print(convert_to_tuple(s))