def normalize(orig_string): """Strips non-alphanumeric characters from a string unless doing so would make it blank.""" string = strip_non_alnum(orig_string.lower()) if not string: string = orig_string #string = " ".join(filter(lambda a: a not in _stop_words and len(a) > 1, # _split_re.split(string))) #string = unaccent(string) return string
def normalize(orig_string): """Strips non-alphanumeric characters from a string unless doing so would make it blank.""" string = strip_non_alnum(orig_string.lower()) if not string: string = orig_string return string