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pythonarraystokenize

Getting list of string array into separate string arrays in python

This is my code.

SENTENCE = "He sad might have lung cancer. It’s just a rumor."
sent=(sent_tokenize(SENTENCE))

The output is

['He sad might have lung cancer.', 'It’s just a rumor.']

I want to get this array as

['He sad might have lung cancer.']
['It’s just a rumor.']

Is their any way of doing this and if so how?

Solution

  • Since you want to split according to a sentence, you can simply do this:

    sentence_list = SENTENCE.split('.')
for sentence in sentence_list:
    single_sentence = [sentence + '.']

    If you actually want all lists containing a single sentence in the same data structure, you'd have to use a list of lists or a dictionary:

    my_sentences = []

sentence_list = SENTENCE.split('.')
for sentence in sentence_list:
    my_sentences.append([sentence + '.'])

    To shorten this out using a list comprehension:

    my_sentences = [[sentence + '.'] for sentence in SENTENCE.split('.')]

    with the only culprit being that the SENTENCE splitting part will happen more often so it'll be slower working with a massive amount of sentences.