Collator.lstripwords: Strip words off the start and append to the end.

[python-collate.git] / collate / strings.py

diff --git a/collate/strings.py b/collate/strings.py
index 487257f..16ba8be 100644 (file)
--- a/collate/strings.py
+++ b/collate/strings.py
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ ROMAN = {
     u"\u2188": 100000,
     }
 
+INITIAL_STOPS = frozenset([u"a", u"an", u"the"])
+
 def stripends(word):
     """Strip punctuation and symbols from the ends of a string."""
     while word and unicodedata.category(word[0])[0] in "PS":