Function normalizeString

beginner_source/chatbot_tutorial.py:340–345

(s)

# Lowercase, trim, and remove non-letter characters
def normalizeString(s):
    s = unicodeToAscii(s.lower().strip())
    s = re.sub(r"([.!?])", r" \1", s)
    s = re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z.!?]+", r" ", s)
    s = re.sub(r"\s+", r" ", s).strip()
    return s

# Read query/response pairs and return a voc object
def readVocs(datafile, corpus_name):