Question

1. Write a function in Python which removes a set of common words from a long piece of text. Be sure to strip out any punctuation. The common words to be removed are:

a, an, as, at, by, for, in, is, it, of, that, this, to, was, will, the

These are typical words that are considered to have low semantic value.

Process each paragraph provided below individually. Your end result for each paragraph should be a string or list containing the processed paragraph with the common words and punctuation removed. It is not required to put the text samples into a file (you can simply copy and paste into a string variable inside your Python script).

For the text samples to process, use the following (taken from the official Python tutorial):

If you do much work on computers, eventually you find that there’s some task you’d like to automate. For example, you may wish to perform a search-and-replace over a large number of text files, or rename and rearrange a bunch of photo files in a complicated way. Perhaps you’d like to write a small custom database, or a specialized GUI application, or a simple game.

If you’re a professional software developer, you may have to work with several C/C++/Java libraries but find the usual write/compile/test/re-compile cycle is too slow. Perhaps you’re writing a test suite for such a library and find writing the testing code a tedious task. Or maybe you’ve written a program that could use an extension language, and you don’t want to design and implement a whole new language for your application.

Answer 1

Code

str=input()
#punctuations list
p = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''
#list of words to be removed
l= [' a ',' an ',' as ',' at ',' by ',' for ',' in ', ' is ',' it ',' of ',' that ',' this ',' to ',' was ',' will ',' the ']
r=""
for i in str:
        if i not in l and i not in p:
                r+=i
print(r)

Terminal Work

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