.. _spkg_snowballstemmer:

snowballstemmer: Stemmer algorithms for natural language processing in Python
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Description
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This package provides 29 stemmers for 28 languages generated from Snowball algorithms.

License
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BSD-3-Clause

Upstream Contact
----------------

https://pypi.org/project/snowballstemmer/

This is a pure Python stemming library. If PyStemmer is available, this
module uses it to accelerate.

Type
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standard


Dependencies
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- $(PYTHON)
- $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    3.0.1

version_requirements.txt::

    snowballstemmer >=1.2.1


Equivalent System Packages
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.. tab:: conda-forge

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ conda install snowballstemmer 


.. tab:: Gentoo Linux

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ sudo emerge dev-python/snowballstemmer 


.. tab:: MacPorts

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ sudo port install py-snowballstemmer 


.. tab:: openSUSE

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ sudo zypper install 'python3${PYTHON_MINOR}-snowballstemmer' 


.. tab:: Void Linux

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ sudo xbps-install python3-snowballstemmer 



See https://repology.org/project/python:snowballstemmer/versions

If the system package is installed and if the (experimental) option
``--enable-system-site-packages`` is passed to ``./configure``, then ``./configure``
will check if the system package can be used.

