nltk--nltk/nltk/stem/util.py

# Natural Language Toolkit: Stemmer Utilities
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2026 NLTK Project
# Author: Helder <he7d3r@gmail.com>
# URL: <https://www.nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT


def suffix_replace(original, old, new):
    """
    Replaces the old suffix of the original string by a new suffix
    """
    return original[: -len(old)] + new


def prefix_replace(original, old, new):
    """
    Replaces the old prefix of the original string by a new suffix

    :param original: string
    :param old: string
    :param new: string
    :return: string
    """
    return new + original[len(old) :]