I feel like I'm doing something really stupid here, I am trying to stem words I have in a list but it is not giving me the intended outcome, my code is:
from nltk.stem.snowball import SnowballStemmer
snowball = SnowballStemmer(language="english")
my_words = ['works', 'shooting', 'runs']
for w in my_words:
w=snowball.stem(w)
print(my_words)
and the ouput I get is
['works', 'shooting', 'runs]
as opposed to
['work','shoot','run']
I feel like I'm doing something very silly with my list but could anyone enlighten me what I'm doing wrong?
You can use list comprehension :
[snowball.stem(word) for word in my_words]