將復合名詞與基本名詞分開

Question

我有一個這樣的清單：

name = ['road', 'roadwork', 'roadblock', 'ball', 'football', 'basketball', 'volleyball']

是否存在將復合名詞與基本名詞分開的代碼？ 這樣我就可以得到：

name = ['road', 'ball']

謝謝。

Answer 1

不包含任何其他單詞作為子字符串的所有單詞：

>>> [x for x in name if not any(word in x for word in name if word != x)]
    ['road', 'ball']

使用循環打印名稱的一種方法：

for candidate in name:
    for word in name:
        # candidate is a compound if it contains any other word (not equal to it)
        if word != candidate and word in candidate:
            break      # a compound. break inner loop, continue outer
    else:              # no breaks occured, must be a basic noun
        print candidate 

Answer 2

names = ['road', 'roadwork', 'roadblock', 'ball', 'football', 'basketball', 'volleyball']

basic_names = [name for name in names if not any([part for part in names if part in name and part != name])]