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"IndexError: string index out of range" on trying to stem the word "oing"
See original GitHub issueEasy to reproduce:
>>> from nltk import PorterStemmer
>>> stemmer = PorterStemmer()
>>> stemmer.stem('oing')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/peterbe/virtualenvs/songsearch/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nltk/stem/porter.py", line 665, in stem
stem = self._step1b(stem)
File "/Users/peterbe/virtualenvs/songsearch/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nltk/stem/porter.py", line 376, in _step1b
lambda stem: (self._measure(stem) == 1 and
File "/Users/peterbe/virtualenvs/songsearch/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nltk/stem/porter.py", line 258, in _apply_rule_list
if suffix == '*d' and self._ends_double_consonant(word):
File "/Users/peterbe/virtualenvs/songsearch/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nltk/stem/porter.py", line 214, in _ends_double_consonant
word[-1] == word[-2] and
IndexError: string index out of range
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.__version__
'3.2.2'
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