#!/usr/bin/env python3

import ucto

text = """To be or not to be, that's the question. This is a test to tokenise. We can span

multiple lines!!! The number 6 is Mr Li's favourite. We can't stop yet.

This is the next paragraph. And so it ends"""

#Set a file to use as tokeniser rules, this one is for English, other languages are available too:

settingsfile = "tokconfig-eng"

#Initialise the tokeniser, options are passed as keyword arguments, defaults:

# lowercase=False,uppercase=False,sentenceperlineinput=False,

# sentenceperlineoutput=False,

# sentencedetection=True, paragraphdetection=True, quotedetectin=False,

# debug=False

tokenizer = ucto.Tokenizer(settingsfile)

#pass the text (may be called multiple times),

tokenizer.process(text)

#read the tokenised data

for token in tokenizer:

#token is an instance of ucto.Token, serialise to string using str()

print( "[" + str(token) + "]", end="" )

#tokens remember whether they are followed by a space

if token.isendofsentence():

print()

elif not token.nospace():

print(" ",end="")

#the type of the token (i.e. the rule that build it) is available as token.type

#we can continue with more text:

tokenizer.process("This was not enough. We want more text. More sentences are better!!!")

#there is a high-levelinterface to iterate over sentences as string, with all tokens space-separated:

for sentence in tokenizer.sentences():

print(sentence)