texthero.preprocessing.replace_stopwords¶

replace_stopwords(input: pandas.core.series.Series, symbol: str, stopwords: Union[Set[str], NoneType] = None) → pandas.core.series.Series¶

Replace all instances of words with symbol.

By default uses NLTK’s english stopwords of 179 words.

Parameters

inputPandas Series

symbol: str

Character(s) to replace words with.

stopwordsSet[str], Optional

Set of stopwords string to remove. If not passed, by default it used NLTK English stopwords.

Examples

>>> s = pd.Series("the book of the jungle")
>>> replace_stopwords(s, "X")
0    X book X X jungle
dtype: object