def formatText(text):
# formats the user input:
# - makes it all lowercase
# - replaces punctuation and numbers with spaces
# - removes multiple spaces
text = text.lower()
text = text.replace('-', ' ')
text = toStem([text])
text.replace("'", " ")
text = re.findall(r"[\w']+", text)
text = ' '.join(text)
text = text.strip()
return text
def formatText(text):
# formats the user input:
# - makes it all lowercase
# - replaces punctuation and numbers with spaces
# - removes multiple spaces
text = text.lower()
text = text.replace('-', ' ')
exclude = set(string.punctuation)
text = ''.join(ch for ch in text if ch not in exclude)
text = toStem([text])
text = re.sub( '\s+', ' ', text).strip()
text = ' '.join(text.split())
text.strip()
return text
