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<span id="lang-porter-module"></span><h1><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lang.porter</span></tt> module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-whoosh.lang.porter" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Reimplementation of the
<a class="reference external" href="http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/">Porter stemming algorithm</a>
in Python.</p>
<p>In my quick tests, this implementation about 3.5 times faster than the
seriously weird Python linked from the official page.</p>
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<dd><p>Uses the Porter stemming algorithm to remove suffixes from English
words.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">stem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">"fundamentally"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">"fundament"</span>
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