Correct misspelled words with Python

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I need to clean the misspelling words in a query like "eat an appple", "eat an bannnna". I have tried the autocorrect function but it only works for single words.

from autocorrect import spell
spell("appple")

it returns the correct word "apple". However, for the whole sentence, it does not work.

I wonder if there is any easier way to automatically correct the misspelling words in a sentence without writing a loop.

If you want to use the autocorrect package, you'll need to do some kind of iteration over the words in the sentence. — ndmeiri
– ndmeiri, Commented Mar 14, 2018 at 19:38

cs95 · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-14 19:39:56Z

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"Without a loop"

>>> ' '.join(map(spell, 'i like appples'.split()))
'i like apples'

Unfortunately, you still need some mechanism of autocorrecting each word separately, for which a loop, or "looping" construct (such as map) cannot be avoided.

answered Mar 14, 2018 at 19:39

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