API Reference

Blob Classes

Wrappers for various units of text, including the main TextBlob, Word, and WordList classes. Example usage:

>>> from textblob import TextBlob
>>> b = TextBlob("Simple is better than complex.")
>>> b.tags
[(u'Simple', u'NN'), (u'is', u'VBZ'), (u'better', u'JJR'), (u'than', u'IN'), (u'complex', u'NN')]
>>> b.noun_phrases
WordList([u'simple'])
>>> b.words
WordList([u'Simple', u'is', u'better', u'than', u'complex'])
>>> b.sentiment
(0.06666666666666667, 0.41904761904761906)
>>> b.words[0].synsets()[0]
Synset('simple.n.01')

Changed in version 0.8.0: These classes are now imported from textblob rather than text.blob.

class textblob.blob.BaseBlob(text, tokenizer=None, pos_tagger=None, np_extractor=None, analyzer=None, parser=None, classifier=None, clean_html=False)

An abstract base class that all textblob classes will inherit from. Includes words, POS tag, NP, and word count properties. Also includes basic dunder and string methods for making objects like Python strings.

Parameters:

• text – A string.
• tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer instance. If None, defaults to WordTokenizer().
• np_extractor – (optional) An NPExtractor instance. If None, defaults to FastNPExtractor().
• pos_tagger – (optional) A Tagger instance. If None, defaults to NLTKTagger.
• analyzer – (optional) A sentiment analyzer. If None, defaults to PatternAnalyzer.
• parser – A parser. If None, defaults to PatternParser.
• classifier – A classifier.

Changed in version 0.6.0: clean_html parameter deprecated, as it was in NLTK.

classify()

Classify the blob using the blob’s classifier.

correct()

Attempt to correct the spelling of a blob.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:BaseBlob

detect_language()

Detect the blob’s language using the Google Translate API.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("bonjour")
>>> b.detect_language()
u'fr'

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0.

Return type:str

ends_with(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

endswith(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

find(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.find() method. Returns an integer, the index of the first occurrence of the substring argument sub in the sub-string given by [start:end].

format(*args, **kwargs)

Perform a string formatting operation, like the built-in str.format(*args, **kwargs). Returns a blob object.

index(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.find() but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

join(iterable)

Behaves like the built-in str.join(iterable) method, except returns a blob object.

Returns a blob which is the concatenation of the strings or blobs in the iterable.

lower()

Like str.lower(), returns new object with all lower-cased characters.

ngrams(n=3)

Return a list of n-grams (tuples of n successive words) for this blob.

Return type:List of WordLists

noun_phrases

Returns a list of noun phrases for this blob.

np_counts

Dictionary of noun phrase frequencies in this text.

parse(parser=None)

Parse the text.

Parameters:parser – (optional) A parser instance. If None, defaults to this blob’s default parser.

New in version 0.6.0.

polarity

Return the polarity score as a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0]

Return type:float

pos_tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

replace(old, new, count=9223372036854775807)

Return a new blob object with all the occurence of old replaced by new.

rfind(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.rfind() method. Returns an integer, the index of he last (right-most) occurence of the substring argument sub in the sub-sequence given by [start:end].

rindex(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.rfind() but raise ValueError when substring is not found.

sentiment

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0] and subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:namedtuple of the form Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity)

sentiment_assessments

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity, assessments ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0], subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective, and assessments is a list of polarity and subjectivity scores for the assessed tokens.

Return type:namedtuple of the form ``Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity,

assessments)``

split(sep=None, maxsplit=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.split() except returns a WordList.

Return type:WordList

starts_with(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

startswith(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

strip(chars=None)

Behaves like the built-in str.strip([chars]) method. Returns an object with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

subjectivity

Return the subjectivity score as a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:float

tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

title()

Returns a blob object with the text in title-case.

tokenize(tokenizer=None)

Return a list of tokens, using tokenizer.

Parameters:tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer object. If None, defaults to this blob’s default tokenizer.

tokens

Return a list of tokens, using this blob’s tokenizer object (defaults to WordTokenizer).

translate(from_lang=u'auto', to=u'en')

Translate the blob to another language. Uses the Google Translate API. Returns a new TextBlob.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("Simple is better than complex")
>>> b.translate(to="es")
TextBlob('Lo simple es mejor que complejo')

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0..

Parameters:

• from_lang (str) – Language to translate from. If None, will attempt to detect the language.
• to (str) – Language to translate to.

Return type:

BaseBlob

upper()

Like str.upper(), returns new object with all upper-cased characters.

word_counts

Dictionary of word frequencies in this text.

words

Return a list of word tokens. This excludes punctuation characters. If you want to include punctuation characters, access the tokens property.

Returns:A WordList of word tokens.

class textblob.blob.Blobber(tokenizer=None, pos_tagger=None, np_extractor=None, analyzer=None, parser=None, classifier=None)

A factory for TextBlobs that all share the same tagger, tokenizer, parser, classifier, and np_extractor.

Usage:

>>> from textblob import Blobber
>>> from textblob.taggers import NLTKTagger
>>> from textblob.tokenizers import SentenceTokenizer
>>> tb = Blobber(pos_tagger=NLTKTagger(), tokenizer=SentenceTokenizer())
>>> blob1 = tb("This is one blob.")
>>> blob2 = tb("This blob has the same tagger and tokenizer.")
>>> blob1.pos_tagger is blob2.pos_tagger
True

Parameters:

• tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer instance. If None, defaults to WordTokenizer().
• np_extractor – (optional) An NPExtractor instance. If None, defaults to FastNPExtractor().
• pos_tagger – (optional) A Tagger instance. If None, defaults to NLTKTagger.
• analyzer – (optional) A sentiment analyzer. If None, defaults to PatternAnalyzer.
• parser – A parser. If None, defaults to PatternParser.
• classifier – A classifier.

New in version 0.4.0.

class textblob.blob.Sentence(sentence, start_index=0, end_index=None, *args, **kwargs)

A sentence within a TextBlob. Inherits from BaseBlob.

Parameters:

• sentence – A string, the raw sentence.
• start_index – An int, the index where this sentence begins in a TextBlob. If not given, defaults to 0.
• end_index – An int, the index where this sentence ends in a TextBlob. If not given, defaults to the length of the sentence - 1.

classify()

Classify the blob using the blob’s classifier.

correct()

Attempt to correct the spelling of a blob.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:BaseBlob

detect_language()

Detect the blob’s language using the Google Translate API.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("bonjour")
>>> b.detect_language()
u'fr'

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0.

Return type:str

dict

The dict representation of this sentence.

end = None

The end index within a textBlob

end_index = None

The end index within a textBlob

ends_with(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

endswith(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

find(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.find() method. Returns an integer, the index of the first occurrence of the substring argument sub in the sub-string given by [start:end].

format(*args, **kwargs)

Perform a string formatting operation, like the built-in str.format(*args, **kwargs). Returns a blob object.

index(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.find() but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

join(iterable)

Behaves like the built-in str.join(iterable) method, except returns a blob object.

Returns a blob which is the concatenation of the strings or blobs in the iterable.

lower()

Like str.lower(), returns new object with all lower-cased characters.

ngrams(n=3)

Return a list of n-grams (tuples of n successive words) for this blob.

Return type:List of WordLists

noun_phrases

Returns a list of noun phrases for this blob.

np_counts

Dictionary of noun phrase frequencies in this text.

parse(parser=None)

Parse the text.

Parameters:parser – (optional) A parser instance. If None, defaults to this blob’s default parser.

New in version 0.6.0.

polarity

Return the polarity score as a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0]

Return type:float

pos_tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

replace(old, new, count=9223372036854775807)

Return a new blob object with all the occurence of old replaced by new.

rfind(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.rfind() method. Returns an integer, the index of he last (right-most) occurence of the substring argument sub in the sub-sequence given by [start:end].

rindex(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.rfind() but raise ValueError when substring is not found.

sentiment

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0] and subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:namedtuple of the form Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity)

sentiment_assessments

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity, assessments ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0], subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective, and assessments is a list of polarity and subjectivity scores for the assessed tokens.

Return type:namedtuple of the form ``Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity,

assessments)``

split(sep=None, maxsplit=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.split() except returns a WordList.

Return type:WordList

start = None

The start index within a TextBlob

start_index = None

The start index within a TextBlob

starts_with(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

startswith(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

strip(chars=None)

Behaves like the built-in str.strip([chars]) method. Returns an object with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

subjectivity

Return the subjectivity score as a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:float

tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

title()

Returns a blob object with the text in title-case.

tokenize(tokenizer=None)

Return a list of tokens, using tokenizer.

Parameters:tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer object. If None, defaults to this blob’s default tokenizer.

tokens

Return a list of tokens, using this blob’s tokenizer object (defaults to WordTokenizer).

translate(from_lang=u'auto', to=u'en')

Translate the blob to another language. Uses the Google Translate API. Returns a new TextBlob.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("Simple is better than complex")
>>> b.translate(to="es")
TextBlob('Lo simple es mejor que complejo')

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0..

Parameters:

• from_lang (str) – Language to translate from. If None, will attempt to detect the language.
• to (str) – Language to translate to.

Return type:

BaseBlob

upper()

Like str.upper(), returns new object with all upper-cased characters.

word_counts

Dictionary of word frequencies in this text.

words

Return a list of word tokens. This excludes punctuation characters. If you want to include punctuation characters, access the tokens property.

Returns:A WordList of word tokens.

class textblob.blob.TextBlob(text, tokenizer=None, pos_tagger=None, np_extractor=None, analyzer=None, parser=None, classifier=None, clean_html=False)

A general text block, meant for larger bodies of text (esp. those containing sentences). Inherits from BaseBlob.

Parameters:

• text (str) – A string.
• tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer instance. If None, defaults to WordTokenizer().
• np_extractor – (optional) An NPExtractor instance. If None, defaults to FastNPExtractor().
• pos_tagger – (optional) A Tagger instance. If None, defaults to NLTKTagger.
• analyzer – (optional) A sentiment analyzer. If None, defaults to PatternAnalyzer.
• classifier – (optional) A classifier.

classify()

Classify the blob using the blob’s classifier.

correct()

Attempt to correct the spelling of a blob.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:BaseBlob

detect_language()

Detect the blob’s language using the Google Translate API.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("bonjour")
>>> b.detect_language()
u'fr'

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0.

Return type:str

ends_with(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

endswith(suffix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob ends with the given suffix.

find(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.find() method. Returns an integer, the index of the first occurrence of the substring argument sub in the sub-string given by [start:end].

format(*args, **kwargs)

Perform a string formatting operation, like the built-in str.format(*args, **kwargs). Returns a blob object.

index(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.find() but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

join(iterable)

Behaves like the built-in str.join(iterable) method, except returns a blob object.

Returns a blob which is the concatenation of the strings or blobs in the iterable.

json

The json representation of this blob.

Changed in version 0.5.1: Made json a property instead of a method to restore backwards compatibility that was broken after version 0.4.0.

lower()

Like str.lower(), returns new object with all lower-cased characters.

ngrams(n=3)

Return a list of n-grams (tuples of n successive words) for this blob.

Return type:List of WordLists

noun_phrases

Returns a list of noun phrases for this blob.

np_counts

Dictionary of noun phrase frequencies in this text.

parse(parser=None)

Parse the text.

Parameters:parser – (optional) A parser instance. If None, defaults to this blob’s default parser.

New in version 0.6.0.

polarity

Return the polarity score as a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0]

Return type:float

pos_tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

raw_sentences

List of strings, the raw sentences in the blob.

replace(old, new, count=9223372036854775807)

Return a new blob object with all the occurence of old replaced by new.

rfind(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.rfind() method. Returns an integer, the index of he last (right-most) occurence of the substring argument sub in the sub-sequence given by [start:end].

rindex(sub, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Like blob.rfind() but raise ValueError when substring is not found.

sentences

Return list of Sentence objects.

sentiment

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0] and subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:namedtuple of the form Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity)

sentiment_assessments

Return a tuple of form (polarity, subjectivity, assessments ) where polarity is a float within the range [-1.0, 1.0], subjectivity is a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective, and assessments is a list of polarity and subjectivity scores for the assessed tokens.

Return type:namedtuple of the form ``Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity,

assessments)``

serialized

Returns a list of each sentence’s dict representation.

split(sep=None, maxsplit=9223372036854775807)

Behaves like the built-in str.split() except returns a WordList.

Return type:WordList

starts_with(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

startswith(prefix, start=0, end=9223372036854775807)

Returns True if the blob starts with the given prefix.

strip(chars=None)

Behaves like the built-in str.strip([chars]) method. Returns an object with leading and trailing whitespace removed.

subjectivity

Return the subjectivity score as a float within the range [0.0, 1.0] where 0.0 is very objective and 1.0 is very subjective.

Return type:float

tags

Returns an list of tuples of the form (word, POS tag).

Example:

[('At', 'IN'), ('eight', 'CD'), ("o'clock", 'JJ'), ('on', 'IN'),
        ('Thursday', 'NNP'), ('morning', 'NN')]

Return type:list of tuples

title()

Returns a blob object with the text in title-case.

to_json(*args, **kwargs)

Return a json representation (str) of this blob. Takes the same arguments as json.dumps.

New in version 0.5.1.

tokenize(tokenizer=None)

Return a list of tokens, using tokenizer.

Parameters:tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer object. If None, defaults to this blob’s default tokenizer.

tokens

Return a list of tokens, using this blob’s tokenizer object (defaults to WordTokenizer).

translate(from_lang=u'auto', to=u'en')

Translate the blob to another language. Uses the Google Translate API. Returns a new TextBlob.

Requires an internet connection.

Usage:

>>> b = TextBlob("Simple is better than complex")
>>> b.translate(to="es")
TextBlob('Lo simple es mejor que complejo')

Language code reference:

https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0..

Parameters:

• from_lang (str) – Language to translate from. If None, will attempt to detect the language.
• to (str) – Language to translate to.

Return type:

BaseBlob

upper()

Like str.upper(), returns new object with all upper-cased characters.

word_counts

Dictionary of word frequencies in this text.

words

Return a list of word tokens. This excludes punctuation characters. If you want to include punctuation characters, access the tokens property.

Returns:A WordList of word tokens.

class textblob.blob.Word(string, pos_tag=None)

A simple word representation. Includes methods for inflection, translation, and WordNet integration.

capitalize() → unicode

Return a capitalized version of S, i.e. make the first character have upper case and the rest lower case.

center(width[, fillchar]) → unicode

Return S centered in a Unicode string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fill character (default is a space)

correct()

Correct the spelling of the word. Returns the word with the highest confidence using the spelling corrector.

New in version 0.6.0.

count(sub[, start[, end]]) → int

Return the number of non-overlapping occurrences of substring sub in Unicode string S[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

decode([encoding[, errors]]) → string or unicode

Decodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme. Default is ‘strict’ meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are ‘ignore’ and ‘replace’ as well as any other name registered with codecs.register_error that is able to handle UnicodeDecodeErrors.

define(pos=None)

Return a list of definitions for this word. Each definition corresponds to a synset for this word.

Parameters:pos – A part-of-speech tag to filter upon. If None, definitions for all parts of speech will be loaded. Return type:List of strings

New in version 0.7.0.

definitions

The list of definitions for this word. Each definition corresponds to a synset.

New in version 0.7.0.

detect_language()

Detect the word’s language using Google’s Translate API.

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API istead.

New in version 0.5.0.

encode([encoding[, errors]]) → string or unicode

Encodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme. Default is ‘strict’ meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeEncodeError. Other possible values are ‘ignore’, ‘replace’ and ‘xmlcharrefreplace’ as well as any other name registered with codecs.register_error that can handle UnicodeEncodeErrors.

endswith(suffix[, start[, end]]) → bool

Return True if S ends with the specified suffix, False otherwise. With optional start, test S beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing S at that position. suffix can also be a tuple of strings to try.

expandtabs([tabsize]) → unicode

Return a copy of S where all tab characters are expanded using spaces. If tabsize is not given, a tab size of 8 characters is assumed.

find(sub[, start[, end]]) → int

Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

Return -1 on failure.

format(*args, **kwargs) → unicode

Return a formatted version of S, using substitutions from args and kwargs. The substitutions are identified by braces (‘{‘ and ‘}’).

get_synsets(pos=None)

Return a list of Synset objects for this word.

Parameters:pos – A part-of-speech tag to filter upon. If None, all synsets for all parts of speech will be loaded. Return type:list of Synsets

New in version 0.7.0.

index(sub[, start[, end]]) → int

Like S.find() but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

isalnum() → bool

Return True if all characters in S are alphanumeric and there is at least one character in S, False otherwise.

isalpha() → bool

Return True if all characters in S are alphabetic and there is at least one character in S, False otherwise.

isdecimal() → bool

Return True if there are only decimal characters in S, False otherwise.

isdigit() → bool

Return True if all characters in S are digits and there is at least one character in S, False otherwise.

islower() → bool

Return True if all cased characters in S are lowercase and there is at least one cased character in S, False otherwise.

isnumeric() → bool

Return True if there are only numeric characters in S, False otherwise.

isspace() → bool

Return True if all characters in S are whitespace and there is at least one character in S, False otherwise.

istitle() → bool

Return True if S is a titlecased string and there is at least one character in S, i.e. upper- and titlecase characters may only follow uncased characters and lowercase characters only cased ones. Return False otherwise.

isupper() → bool

Return True if all cased characters in S are uppercase and there is at least one cased character in S, False otherwise.

join(iterable) → unicode

Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the iterable. The separator between elements is S.

lemma

Return the lemma of this word using Wordnet’s morphy function.

lemmatize(**kwargs)

Return the lemma for a word using WordNet’s morphy function.

Parameters:pos – Part of speech to filter upon. If None, defaults to _wordnet.NOUN.

New in version 0.8.1.

ljust(width[, fillchar]) → int

Return S left-justified in a Unicode string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fill character (default is a space).

lower() → unicode

Return a copy of the string S converted to lowercase.

lstrip([chars]) → unicode

Return a copy of the string S with leading whitespace removed. If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead. If chars is a str, it will be converted to unicode before stripping

partition(sep) -> (head, sep, tail)

Search for the separator sep in S, and return the part before it, the separator itself, and the part after it. If the separator is not found, return S and two empty strings.

pluralize()

Return the plural version of the word as a string.

replace(old, new[, count]) → unicode

Return a copy of S with all occurrences of substring old replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first count occurrences are replaced.

rfind(sub[, start[, end]]) → int

Return the highest index in S where substring sub is found, such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.

Return -1 on failure.

rindex(sub[, start[, end]]) → int

Like S.rfind() but raise ValueError when the substring is not found.

rjust(width[, fillchar]) → unicode

Return S right-justified in a Unicode string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fill character (default is a space).

rpartition(sep) -> (head, sep, tail)

Search for the separator sep in S, starting at the end of S, and return the part before it, the separator itself, and the part after it. If the separator is not found, return two empty strings and S.

rsplit([sep[, maxsplit]]) → list of strings

Return a list of the words in S, using sep as the delimiter string, starting at the end of the string and working to the front. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done. If sep is not specified, any whitespace string is a separator.

rstrip([chars]) → unicode

Return a copy of the string S with trailing whitespace removed. If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead. If chars is a str, it will be converted to unicode before stripping

singularize()

Return the singular version of the word as a string.

spellcheck()

Return a list of (word, confidence) tuples of spelling corrections.

Based on: Peter Norvig, “How to Write a Spelling Corrector” (http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) as implemented in the pattern library.

New in version 0.6.0.

split([sep[, maxsplit]]) → list of strings

Return a list of the words in S, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any whitespace string is a separator and empty strings are removed from the result.

splitlines(keepends=False) → list of strings

Return a list of the lines in S, breaking at line boundaries. Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless keepends is given and true.

startswith(prefix[, start[, end]]) → bool

Return True if S starts with the specified prefix, False otherwise. With optional start, test S beginning at that position. With optional end, stop comparing S at that position. prefix can also be a tuple of strings to try.

stem(stemmer=<PorterStemmer>)

Stem a word using various NLTK stemmers. (Default: Porter Stemmer)

New in version 0.12.0.

strip([chars]) → unicode

Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing whitespace removed. If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead. If chars is a str, it will be converted to unicode before stripping

swapcase() → unicode

Return a copy of S with uppercase characters converted to lowercase and vice versa.

synsets

The list of Synset objects for this Word.

Return type:list of Synsets

New in version 0.7.0.

title() → unicode

Return a titlecased version of S, i.e. words start with title case characters, all remaining cased characters have lower case.

translate(from_lang=u'auto', to=u'en')

Translate the word to another language using Google’s Translate API.

Deprecated since version 0.16.0: Use the official Google Translate API instead.

New in version 0.5.0.

upper() → unicode

Return a copy of S converted to uppercase.

zfill(width) → unicode

Pad a numeric string S with zeros on the left, to fill a field of the specified width. The string S is never truncated.

class textblob.blob.WordList(collection)

A list-like collection of words.

append(obj)

Append an object to end. If the object is a string, appends a Word object.

count(strg, case_sensitive=False, *args, **kwargs)

Get the count of a word or phrase s within this WordList.

Parameters:

• strg – The string to count.
• case_sensitive – A boolean, whether or not the search is case-sensitive.

extend(iterable)

Extend WordList by appending elements from iterable. If an element is a string, appends a Word object.

index(value[, start[, stop]]) → integer -- return first index of value.

Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

insert()

L.insert(index, object) – insert object before index

lemmatize()

Return the lemma of each word in this WordList.

lower()

Return a new WordList with each word lower-cased.

pluralize()

Return the plural version of each word in this WordList.

pop([index]) → item -- remove and return item at index (default last).

Raises IndexError if list is empty or index is out of range.

remove()

L.remove(value) – remove first occurrence of value. Raises ValueError if the value is not present.

reverse()

L.reverse() – reverse IN PLACE

singularize()

Return the single version of each word in this WordList.

sort()

L.sort(cmp=None, key=None, reverse=False) – stable sort IN PLACE; cmp(x, y) -> -1, 0, 1

stem(*args, **kwargs)

Return the stem for each word in this WordList.

upper()

Return a new WordList with each word upper-cased.

Base Classes

Abstract base classes for models (taggers, noun phrase extractors, etc.) which define the interface for descendant classes.

Changed in version 0.7.0: All base classes are defined in the same module, textblob.base.

class textblob.base.BaseNPExtractor

Abstract base class from which all NPExtractor classes inherit. Descendant classes must implement an extract(text) method that returns a list of noun phrases as strings.

extract(text)

Return a list of noun phrases (strings) for a body of text.

class textblob.base.BaseParser

Abstract parser class from which all parsers inherit from. All descendants must implement a parse() method.

parse(text)

Parses the text.

class textblob.base.BaseSentimentAnalyzer

Abstract base class from which all sentiment analyzers inherit. Should implement an analyze(text) method which returns either the results of analysis.

analyze(text)

Return the result of of analysis. Typically returns either a tuple, float, or dictionary.

class textblob.base.BaseTagger

Abstract tagger class from which all taggers inherit from. All descendants must implement a tag() method.

tag(text, tokenize=True)

Return a list of tuples of the form (word, tag) for a given set of text or BaseBlob instance.

class textblob.base.BaseTokenizer

Abstract base class from which all Tokenizer classes inherit. Descendant classes must implement a tokenize(text) method that returns a list of noun phrases as strings.

itokenize(text, *args, **kwargs)

Return a generator that generates tokens “on-demand”.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:generator

tokenize(text)

Return a list of tokens (strings) for a body of text.

Return type:list

Tokenizers

Various tokenizer implementations.

New in version 0.4.0.

class textblob.tokenizers.SentenceTokenizer

NLTK’s sentence tokenizer (currently PunktSentenceTokenizer). Uses an unsupervised algorithm to build a model for abbreviation words, collocations, and words that start sentences, then uses that to find sentence boundaries.

itokenize(text, *args, **kwargs)

Return a generator that generates tokens “on-demand”.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:generator

tokenize(**kwargs)

Return a list of sentences.

class textblob.tokenizers.WordTokenizer

NLTK’s recommended word tokenizer (currently the TreeBankTokenizer). Uses regular expressions to tokenize text. Assumes text has already been segmented into sentences.

Performs the following steps:

• split standard contractions, e.g. don’t -> do n’t
• split commas and single quotes
• separate periods that appear at the end of line

itokenize(text, *args, **kwargs)

Return a generator that generates tokens “on-demand”.

New in version 0.6.0.

Return type:generator

tokenize(text, include_punc=True)

Return a list of word tokens.

Parameters:

• text – string of text.
• include_punc – (optional) whether to include punctuation as separate tokens. Default to True.

textblob.tokenizers.sent_tokenize = <bound method SentenceTokenizer.itokenize of <textblob.tokenizers.SentenceTokenizer object>>

Convenience function for tokenizing sentences

textblob.tokenizers.word_tokenize(text, include_punc=True, *args, **kwargs)

Convenience function for tokenizing text into words.

NOTE: NLTK’s word tokenizer expects sentences as input, so the text will be tokenized to sentences before being tokenized to words.

POS Taggers

Parts-of-speech tagger implementations.

class textblob.en.taggers.NLTKTagger

Tagger that uses NLTK’s standard TreeBank tagger. NOTE: Requires numpy. Not yet supported with PyPy.

tag(**kwargs)

Tag a string or BaseBlob.

class textblob.en.taggers.PatternTagger

Tagger that uses the implementation in Tom de Smedt’s pattern library (http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern).

tag(text, tokenize=True)

Tag a string or BaseBlob.

Noun Phrase Extractors

Various noun phrase extractors.

class textblob.en.np_extractors.ChunkParser

evaluate(gold)

Score the accuracy of the chunker against the gold standard. Remove the chunking the gold standard text, rechunk it using the chunker, and return a ChunkScore object reflecting the performance of this chunk peraser.

Parameters:gold (list(Tree)) – The list of chunked sentences to score the chunker on. Return type:ChunkScore

grammar()

Returns:The grammar used by this parser.

parse(sentence)

Return the parse tree for the sentence.

parse_all(sent, *args, **kwargs)

Return type:list(Tree)

parse_one(sent, *args, **kwargs)

Return type:Tree or None

parse_sents(sents, *args, **kwargs)

Apply self.parse() to each element of sents. :rtype: iter(iter(Tree))

train(**kwargs)

Train the Chunker on the ConLL-2000 corpus.

class textblob.en.np_extractors.ConllExtractor(parser=None)

A noun phrase extractor that uses chunk parsing trained with the ConLL-2000 training corpus.

extract(text)

Return a list of noun phrases (strings) for body of text.

class textblob.en.np_extractors.FastNPExtractor

A fast and simple noun phrase extractor.

Credit to Shlomi Babluk. Link to original blog post:

http://thetokenizer.com/2013/05/09/efficient-way-to-extract-the-main-topics-of-a-sentence/

extract(sentence)

Return a list of noun phrases (strings) for body of text.

Sentiment Analyzers

Sentiment analysis implementations.

New in version 0.5.0.

class textblob.en.sentiments.NaiveBayesAnalyzer(feature_extractor=<function _default_feature_extractor>)

Naive Bayes analyzer that is trained on a dataset of movie reviews. Returns results as a named tuple of the form: Sentiment(classification, p_pos, p_neg)

Parameters:feature_extractor (callable) – Function that returns a dictionary of features, given a list of words.

RETURN_TYPE

Return type declaration

alias of Sentiment

analyze(text)

Return the sentiment as a named tuple of the form: Sentiment(classification, p_pos, p_neg)

train(**kwargs)

Train the Naive Bayes classifier on the movie review corpus.

class textblob.en.sentiments.PatternAnalyzer

Sentiment analyzer that uses the same implementation as the pattern library. Returns results as a named tuple of the form:

Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity, [assessments])

where [assessments] is a list of the assessed tokens and their polarity and subjectivity scores

RETURN_TYPE

alias of Sentiment

analyze(text, keep_assessments=False)

Return the sentiment as a named tuple of the form: Sentiment(polarity, subjectivity, [assessments]).

Parsers

Various parser implementations.

New in version 0.6.0.

class textblob.en.parsers.PatternParser

Parser that uses the implementation in Tom de Smedt’s pattern library. http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en#parser

parse(text)

Parses the text.

Classifiers

Various classifier implementations. Also includes basic feature extractor methods.

Example Usage:

>>> from textblob import TextBlob
>>> from textblob.classifiers import NaiveBayesClassifier
>>> train = [
...     ('I love this sandwich.', 'pos'),
...     ('This is an amazing place!', 'pos'),
...     ('I feel very good about these beers.', 'pos'),
...     ('I do not like this restaurant', 'neg'),
...     ('I am tired of this stuff.', 'neg'),
...     ("I can't deal with this", 'neg'),
...     ("My boss is horrible.", "neg")
... ]
>>> cl = NaiveBayesClassifier(train)
>>> cl.classify("I feel amazing!")
'pos'
>>> blob = TextBlob("The beer is good. But the hangover is horrible.", classifier=cl)
>>> for s in blob.sentences:
...     print(s)
...     print(s.classify())
...
The beer is good.
pos
But the hangover is horrible.
neg

New in version 0.6.0.

class textblob.classifiers.BaseClassifier(train_set, feature_extractor=<function basic_extractor>, format=None, **kwargs)

Abstract classifier class from which all classifers inherit. At a minimum, descendant classes must implement a classify method and have a classifier property.

Parameters:

• train_set – The training set, either a list of tuples of the form (text, classification) or a file-like object. text may be either a string or an iterable.
• feature_extractor (callable) – A feature extractor function that takes one or two arguments: document and train_set.
• format (str) – If train_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.
• kwargs – Additional keyword arguments are passed to the constructor of the Format class used to read the data. Only applies when a file-like object is passed as train_set.

New in version 0.6.0.

classifier

The classifier object.

classify(text)

Classifies a string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

labels()

Returns an iterable containing the possible labels.

train(labeled_featureset)

Trains the classifier.

class textblob.classifiers.DecisionTreeClassifier(train_set, feature_extractor=<function basic_extractor>, format=None, **kwargs)

A classifier based on the decision tree algorithm, as implemented in NLTK.

Parameters:

• train_set – The training set, either a list of tuples of the form (text, classification) or a filename. text may be either a string or an iterable.
• feature_extractor – A feature extractor function that takes one or two arguments: document and train_set.
• format – If train_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

New in version 0.6.2.

accuracy(test_set, format=None)

Compute the accuracy on a test set.

Parameters:

• test_set – A list of tuples of the form (text, label), or a file pointer.
• format – If test_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

classifier

The classifier.

classify(text)

Classifies the text.

Parameters:text (str) – A string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

labels()

Return an iterable of possible labels.

nltk_class

alias of nltk.classify.decisiontree.DecisionTreeClassifier

pprint(*args, **kwargs)

Return a string containing a pretty-printed version of this decision tree. Each line in the string corresponds to a single decision tree node or leaf, and indentation is used to display the structure of the tree.

Return type:str

pretty_format(*args, **kwargs)

Return a string containing a pretty-printed version of this decision tree. Each line in the string corresponds to a single decision tree node or leaf, and indentation is used to display the structure of the tree.

Return type:str

pseudocode(*args, **kwargs)

Return a string representation of this decision tree that expresses the decisions it makes as a nested set of pseudocode if statements.

Return type:str

train(*args, **kwargs)

Train the classifier with a labeled feature set and return the classifier. Takes the same arguments as the wrapped NLTK class. This method is implicitly called when calling classify or accuracy methods and is included only to allow passing in arguments to the train method of the wrapped NLTK class.

New in version 0.6.2.

Return type:A classifier

update(new_data, *args, **kwargs)

Update the classifier with new training data and re-trains the classifier.

Parameters:new_data – New data as a list of tuples of the form (text, label).

class textblob.classifiers.MaxEntClassifier(train_set, feature_extractor=<function basic_extractor>, format=None, **kwargs)

A maximum entropy classifier (also known as a “conditional exponential classifier”). This classifier is parameterized by a set of “weights”, which are used to combine the joint-features that are generated from a featureset by an “encoding”. In particular, the encoding maps each (featureset, label) pair to a vector. The probability of each label is then computed using the following equation:

                          dotprod(weights, encode(fs,label))
prob(fs|label) = ---------------------------------------------------
                 sum(dotprod(weights, encode(fs,l)) for l in labels)

Where dotprod is the dot product:

dotprod(a,b) = sum(x*y for (x,y) in zip(a,b))

accuracy(test_set, format=None)

Compute the accuracy on a test set.

Parameters:

• test_set – A list of tuples of the form (text, label), or a file pointer.
• format – If test_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

classifier

The classifier.

classify(text)

Classifies the text.

Parameters:text (str) – A string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

labels()

Return an iterable of possible labels.

nltk_class

alias of nltk.classify.maxent.MaxentClassifier

prob_classify(text)

Return the label probability distribution for classifying a string of text.

Example:

>>> classifier = MaxEntClassifier(train_data)
>>> prob_dist = classifier.prob_classify("I feel happy this morning.")
>>> prob_dist.max()
'positive'
>>> prob_dist.prob("positive")
0.7

Return type:nltk.probability.DictionaryProbDist

train(*args, **kwargs)

Train the classifier with a labeled feature set and return the classifier. Takes the same arguments as the wrapped NLTK class. This method is implicitly called when calling classify or accuracy methods and is included only to allow passing in arguments to the train method of the wrapped NLTK class.

New in version 0.6.2.

Return type:A classifier

update(new_data, *args, **kwargs)

Update the classifier with new training data and re-trains the classifier.

Parameters:new_data – New data as a list of tuples of the form (text, label).

class textblob.classifiers.NLTKClassifier(train_set, feature_extractor=<function basic_extractor>, format=None, **kwargs)

An abstract class that wraps around the nltk.classify module.

Expects that descendant classes include a class variable nltk_class which is the class in the nltk.classify module to be wrapped.

Example:

class MyClassifier(NLTKClassifier):
    nltk_class = nltk.classify.svm.SvmClassifier

accuracy(test_set, format=None)

Compute the accuracy on a test set.

Parameters:

• test_set – A list of tuples of the form (text, label), or a file pointer.
• format – If test_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

classifier

The classifier.

classify(text)

Classifies the text.

Parameters:text (str) – A string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

labels()

Return an iterable of possible labels.

nltk_class = None

The NLTK class to be wrapped. Must be a class within nltk.classify

train(*args, **kwargs)

Train the classifier with a labeled feature set and return the classifier. Takes the same arguments as the wrapped NLTK class. This method is implicitly called when calling classify or accuracy methods and is included only to allow passing in arguments to the train method of the wrapped NLTK class.

New in version 0.6.2.

Return type:A classifier

update(new_data, *args, **kwargs)

Update the classifier with new training data and re-trains the classifier.

Parameters:new_data – New data as a list of tuples of the form (text, label).

class textblob.classifiers.NaiveBayesClassifier(train_set, feature_extractor=<function basic_extractor>, format=None, **kwargs)

A classifier based on the Naive Bayes algorithm, as implemented in NLTK.

Parameters:

• train_set – The training set, either a list of tuples of the form (text, classification) or a filename. text may be either a string or an iterable.
• feature_extractor – A feature extractor function that takes one or two arguments: document and train_set.
• format – If train_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

New in version 0.6.0.

accuracy(test_set, format=None)

Compute the accuracy on a test set.

Parameters:

• test_set – A list of tuples of the form (text, label), or a file pointer.
• format – If test_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

classifier

The classifier.

classify(text)

Classifies the text.

Parameters:text (str) – A string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

informative_features(*args, **kwargs)

Return the most informative features as a list of tuples of the form (feature_name, feature_value).

Return type:list

labels()

Return an iterable of possible labels.

nltk_class

alias of nltk.classify.naivebayes.NaiveBayesClassifier

prob_classify(text)

Return the label probability distribution for classifying a string of text.

Example:

>>> classifier = NaiveBayesClassifier(train_data)
>>> prob_dist = classifier.prob_classify("I feel happy this morning.")
>>> prob_dist.max()
'positive'
>>> prob_dist.prob("positive")
0.7

Return type:nltk.probability.DictionaryProbDist

show_informative_features(*args, **kwargs)

Displays a listing of the most informative features for this classifier.

Return type:None

train(*args, **kwargs)

Train the classifier with a labeled feature set and return the classifier. Takes the same arguments as the wrapped NLTK class. This method is implicitly called when calling classify or accuracy methods and is included only to allow passing in arguments to the train method of the wrapped NLTK class.

New in version 0.6.2.

Return type:A classifier

update(new_data, *args, **kwargs)

Update the classifier with new training data and re-trains the classifier.

Parameters:new_data – New data as a list of tuples of the form (text, label).

class textblob.classifiers.PositiveNaiveBayesClassifier(positive_set, unlabeled_set, feature_extractor=<function contains_extractor>, positive_prob_prior=0.5, **kwargs)

A variant of the Naive Bayes Classifier that performs binary classification with partially-labeled training sets, i.e. when only one class is labeled and the other is not. Assuming a prior distribution on the two labels, uses the unlabeled set to estimate the frequencies of the features.

Example usage:

>>> from text.classifiers import PositiveNaiveBayesClassifier
>>> sports_sentences = ['The team dominated the game',
...                   'They lost the ball',
...                   'The game was intense',
...                   'The goalkeeper catched the ball',
...                   'The other team controlled the ball']
>>> various_sentences = ['The President did not comment',
...                        'I lost the keys',
...                        'The team won the game',
...                        'Sara has two kids',
...                        'The ball went off the court',
...                        'They had the ball for the whole game',
...                        'The show is over']
>>> classifier = PositiveNaiveBayesClassifier(positive_set=sports_sentences,
...                                           unlabeled_set=various_sentences)
>>> classifier.classify("My team lost the game")
True
>>> classifier.classify("And now for something completely different.")
False

Parameters:

• positive_set – A collection of strings that have the positive label.
• unlabeled_set – A collection of unlabeled strings.
• feature_extractor – A feature extractor function.
• positive_prob_prior – A prior estimate of the probability of the label True.

New in version 0.7.0.

accuracy(test_set, format=None)

Compute the accuracy on a test set.

Parameters:

• test_set – A list of tuples of the form (text, label), or a file pointer.
• format – If test_set is a filename, the file format, e.g. "csv" or "json". If None, will attempt to detect the file format.

classifier

The classifier.

classify(text)

Classifies the text.

Parameters:text (str) – A string of text.

extract_features(text)

Extracts features from a body of text.

Return type:dictionary of features

labels()

Return an iterable of possible labels.

train(*args, **kwargs)

Train the classifier with a labeled and unlabeled feature sets and return the classifier. Takes the same arguments as the wrapped NLTK class. This method is implicitly called when calling classify or accuracy methods and is included only to allow passing in arguments to the train method of the wrapped NLTK class.

Return type:A classifier

update(new_positive_data=None, new_unlabeled_data=None, positive_prob_prior=0.5, *args, **kwargs)

Update the classifier with new data and re-trains the classifier.

Parameters:

• new_positive_data – List of new, labeled strings.
• new_unlabeled_data – List of new, unlabeled strings.

textblob.classifiers.basic_extractor(document, train_set)

A basic document feature extractor that returns a dict indicating what words in train_set are contained in document.

Parameters:

• document – The text to extract features from. Can be a string or an iterable.
• train_set (list) – Training data set, a list of tuples of the form (words, label) OR an iterable of strings.

textblob.classifiers.contains_extractor(document)

A basic document feature extractor that returns a dict of words that the document contains.

Blobber

class textblob.blob.Blobber(tokenizer=None, pos_tagger=None, np_extractor=None, analyzer=None, parser=None, classifier=None)

A factory for TextBlobs that all share the same tagger, tokenizer, parser, classifier, and np_extractor.

Usage:

>>> from textblob import Blobber
>>> from textblob.taggers import NLTKTagger
>>> from textblob.tokenizers import SentenceTokenizer
>>> tb = Blobber(pos_tagger=NLTKTagger(), tokenizer=SentenceTokenizer())
>>> blob1 = tb("This is one blob.")
>>> blob2 = tb("This blob has the same tagger and tokenizer.")
>>> blob1.pos_tagger is blob2.pos_tagger
True

Parameters:

• tokenizer – (optional) A tokenizer instance. If None, defaults to WordTokenizer().
• np_extractor – (optional) An NPExtractor instance. If None, defaults to FastNPExtractor().
• pos_tagger – (optional) A Tagger instance. If None, defaults to NLTKTagger.
• analyzer – (optional) A sentiment analyzer. If None, defaults to PatternAnalyzer.
• parser – A parser. If None, defaults to PatternParser.
• classifier – A classifier.

New in version 0.4.0.

__call__(text)

Return a new TextBlob object with this Blobber’s np_extractor, pos_tagger, tokenizer, analyzer, and classifier.

Returns:A new TextBlob.

__init__(tokenizer=None, pos_tagger=None, np_extractor=None, analyzer=None, parser=None, classifier=None)

x.__init__(…) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

__repr__() <==> repr(x)

__str__()

x.__repr__() <==> repr(x)

File Formats

File formats for training and testing data.

Includes a registry of valid file formats. New file formats can be added to the registry like so:

from textblob import formats

class PipeDelimitedFormat(formats.DelimitedFormat):
    delimiter = '|'

formats.register('psv', PipeDelimitedFormat)

Once a format has been registered, classifiers will be able to read data files with that format.

from textblob.classifiers import NaiveBayesAnalyzer

with open('training_data.psv', 'r') as fp:
    cl = NaiveBayesAnalyzer(fp, format='psv')

class textblob.formats.BaseFormat(fp, **kwargs)

Interface for format classes. Individual formats can decide on the composition and meaning of **kwargs.

Parameters:fp (File) – A file-like object.

Changed in version 0.9.0: Constructor receives a file pointer rather than a file path.

classmethod detect(stream)

Detect the file format given a filename. Return True if a stream is this file format.

Changed in version 0.9.0: Changed from a static method to a class method.

to_iterable()

Return an iterable object from the data.

class textblob.formats.CSV(fp, **kwargs)

CSV format. Assumes each row is of the form text,label.

Today is a good day,pos
I hate this car.,pos

classmethod detect(stream)

Return True if stream is valid.

to_iterable()

Return an iterable object from the data.

class textblob.formats.DelimitedFormat(fp, **kwargs)

A general character-delimited format.

classmethod detect(stream)

Return True if stream is valid.

to_iterable()

Return an iterable object from the data.

class textblob.formats.JSON(fp, **kwargs)

JSON format.

Assumes that JSON is formatted as an array of objects with text and label properties.

[
    {"text": "Today is a good day.", "label": "pos"},
    {"text": "I hate this car.", "label": "neg"}
]

classmethod detect(stream)

Return True if stream is valid JSON.

to_iterable()

Return an iterable object from the JSON data.

class textblob.formats.TSV(fp, **kwargs)

TSV format. Assumes each row is of the form text      label.

classmethod detect(stream)

Return True if stream is valid.

to_iterable()

Return an iterable object from the data.

textblob.formats.detect(fp, max_read=1024)

Attempt to detect a file’s format, trying each of the supported formats. Return the format class that was detected. If no format is detected, return None.

textblob.formats.get_registry()

Return a dictionary of registered formats.

textblob.formats.register(name, format_class)

Register a new format.

Parameters:

• name (str) – The name that will be used to refer to the format, e.g. ‘csv’
• format_class (type) – The format class to register.

Wordnet

Exceptions

exception textblob.exceptions.TextBlobError

A TextBlob-related error.

exception textblob.exceptions.MissingCorpusError(message="nLooks like you are missing some required data for this feature.nnTo download the necessary data, simply runnn python -m textblob.download_corporannor use the NLTK downloader to download the missing data: http://nltk.org/data.htmlnIf this doesn't fix the problem, file an issue at https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob/issues.n", *args, **kwargs)

Exception thrown when a user tries to use a feature that requires a dataset or model that the user does not have on their system.

exception textblob.exceptions.DeprecationError

Raised when user uses a deprecated feature.

exception textblob.exceptions.TranslatorError

Raised when an error occurs during language translation or detection.

exception textblob.exceptions.NotTranslated

Raised when text is unchanged after translation. This may be due to the language being unsupported by the translator.

exception textblob.exceptions.FormatError

Raised if a data file with an unsupported format is passed to a classifier.