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Unable to update ' and "" in the stop_word list

I tried to update ' and " in my stop_word list.

> stop_words.update(["'","""])
> stop_words

I got the following error.


    > File "<ipython-input-85-54a2b8b08201>", line 2
    > stop_words
    > 
    > 
    > SyntaxError: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal--

How to update those characters in the stop_word ?

Solution

  • A literal " can e.g. be denoted as '"' or "\"". Your """ syntactically starts a triple-quoted string (which is never ended, causing the SyntaxError).