Check if string appears as its own word - Python

Question

Let\'s say that I am looking for the word \"or\". What I want is to check whether that word appears as a word or as a substring of another word.

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Answer 1

You can use the nltk (Natural Language Toolkit) to split the sentence into words, and then check if some word exists with ==.

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import nltk

def checkword(sentence):
    words = nltk.word_tokenize(sentence)
    return any((True for word in words if word == "or"))

print(checkword("Should be false for."))
print(checkword("Should be true or."))