From 66307d2f6fa7c011c750588f708cfc1deff74e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aleksey Lim <alsroot@member.fsf.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:34:23 +0000
Subject: Merge HabarConSara branch

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(limited to 'Speak.activity/bot/aiml/Utils.py')

diff --git a/Speak.activity/bot/aiml/Utils.py b/Speak.activity/bot/aiml/Utils.py
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+"""This file contains assorted general utility functions used by other
+modules in the PyAIML package.
+
+"""
+
+def sentences(s):
+    """Split the string s into a list of sentences."""
+    try: s+""
+    except: raise TypeError, "s must be a string"
+    pos = 0
+    sentenceList = []
+    l = len(s)
+    while pos < l:
+        try: p = s.index('.', pos)
+        except: p = l+1
+        try: q = s.index('?', pos)
+        except: q = l+1
+        try: e = s.index('!', pos)
+        except: e = l+1
+        end = min(p,q,e)
+        sentenceList.append( s[pos:end].strip() )
+        pos = end+1
+    # If no sentences were found, return a one-item list containing
+    # the entire input string.
+    if len(sentenceList) == 0: sentenceList.append(s)
+    return sentenceList
+
+# Self test
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # sentences
+    sents = sentences("First.  Second, still?  Third and Final!  Well, not really")
+    assert(len(sents) == 4)
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