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bengouk t1_j83s20s wrote

Cool. But whats with that answer though!?

The tokenize_sentences function just calls the nltk word_tokenize with same parameters and returns result? Why not just call the nltk function directly??

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the_aligator6 t1_j86pg30 wrote

Encapsulation of external dependency. If the API changes to nltk, you can maintain the same interface and only make the change in one place. If you want to replace nltk, you only have to make the change in one place

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