Clean up statuses better in data.py

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/data.py b/data.py
index 3eeeaf1..acfc64e 100644
--- a/data.py
+++ b/data.py
@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@ cur.execute('SELECT text FROM statuses WHERE language=\'en\'')
 statuses = cur.fetchall()
 
 
+# Clean up statuses
 for i in range(len(statuses)):
     # Remove HTML stuff
     statuses[i] = unescape(sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', statuses[i][0])).split()
     # Remove URLs and special characters and convert to lowercase
-    statuses[i] = [sub(r'[^a-z0-9]', '', word.lower()) for word in statuses[i] if word.find('://') == -1]
-    # Remove empty strings
-    statuses[i] = ' '.join([word for word in statuses[i] if word != ''])
+    statuses[i] = ' '.join([sub(r'[^a-z0-9]', '', word.lower()) for word in statuses[i] if word.find('://') == -1])
 
 
 # Save to output file