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genre_text_cleaning.py
# function for text cleaning
def clean_text(text):
# remove backslash-apostrophe
text = re.sub("\'", "", text)
# remove everything except alphabets
text = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z]"," ",text)
# remove whitespaces
text = ' '.join(text.split())
# convert text to lowercase
text = text.lower()
return text
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