SCRIPTS & FUNCTIONS DAY /06/14 LING 3820 & 6820 Natural Language Processing Harry Howard Tulane University

Course organization 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 2   The syllabus is under construction.   Chapter numbering  3.7. How to deal with non-English characters 3.7. How to deal with non-English characters  4.5. How to create a pattern with Unicode characters 4.5. How to create a pattern with Unicode characters  6. Control 6. Control

The quiz was the review Review of control 06-Oct NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University

Open Spyder 06-Oct NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University

Scripts 06-Oct NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University

Introduction  By now, you are probably tired of making a tiny error in a long conditional expression and having to rewrite the whole thing.  It would be much easier to write it once, correct it, and then have Python run it as many times as you like.  This is ‘batch’, rather than ‘interactive’ mode, and your code will be saved as a script. 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 6

Scripts in Spyder  It is here that the graphical interface of Spyder shows its superiority.  Under the File menu, choose New file…, which opens a window for a blank Python file.  Or nearly blank, since Spyder fills in the top few lines with a header, such as: 1. """ 2. Created on Mon Jun 3 19:55: Harry Howard 5. """ 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 7

Type this into your blank script beneath the comment in quotes greeting = 'Yo!' caseList = [] for char in greeting: if char.islower(): caseList.append('yes') elif char.isupper(): caseList.append('no') else: caseList.append('whoops!') print caseList 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 8

Saving a script  Save your work by going to the File menu, choosing Save as… and giving the file the name “test”, keeping the.py suffix. 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 9

Create a folder for your scripts in your Documents folder 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 10 pyScripts

Running your script  Now that you have named and saved your script, go to the Run menu of Spyder and select Run.  The first time that you do this for a script, a dialog window will open like the one below that asks you to make some decisions.  You should set the working directory to the pyScripts folder that you just created in your Documents folder. 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 11

Defaults to run a script also in: Preferences > Run 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 12

Where are my files?  Where are your files? 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 13

The response  The console should print a response like the following to running the script:  >>> runfile('/Users/harryhow/Documents/pyScripts/ test.py', wdir=r'/Users/harryhow/Documents/pyScripts')  ['no', 'yes', 'whoops!']  >>> 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 14

Functions 06-Oct NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University

Turn your code into a function def caseChecker(word): caseList = [] for char in word: if char.islower(): caseList.append('yes') elif char.isupper(): caseList.append('no') else: caseList.append('whoops!') return caseList 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 16

In the console, import your function & use it 1. >>> from test import caseChecker 2. >>> caseChecker('Cool!!') 3. ['no', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'whoops!', 'whoops!'] 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 17

Homework: turn your answer to today's quiz into a function, import it in the console & test it various lists Start with NLTK Next time 06-Oct-2014NLP, Prof. Howard, Tulane University 18