How to remove stop words using string.replace()
<p>I have a text file where I am counting the sum of lines, sum of characters and sum of words. How can I clean the data by removing stop words such as (the, for, a) using string.replace()</p>

<p>I have the codes below as of now.</p>

<p>Ex. if the text file contains the line:</p>

<pre><code>"The only words to count are Apple and Grapes for this text"
</code></pre>

<p>It should output:</p>

<pre><code>2 Apple
2 Grapes
1 words
1 only
1 text
</code></pre>

<p>And should not output words like: </p>

<ul>
<li>the </li>
<li>to </li>
<li>are </li>
<li>for </li>
<li>this</li>
</ul>

<p>Below is the code I have as of now.</p>

<pre><code># Open the input file
fname = open('2013_honda_accord.txt', 'r').read()

# COUNT CHARACTERS
num_chars = len(fname)

# COUNT LINES 
num_lines = fname.count('\n')

#COUNT WORDS
fname = fname.lower() # convert the text to lower first
words = fname.split()
d = {}
for w in words:
    # if the word is repeated - start count
    if w in d:    
       d[w] += 1
    # if the word is only used once then give it a count of 1
    else:
       d[w] = 1

# Add the sum of all the repeated words 
num_words = sum(d[w] for w in d)

lst = [(d[w], w) for w in d]
# sort the list of words in alpha for the same count 
lst.sort()
# list word count from greatest to lowest (will also show the sort in reserve order Z-A)
lst.reverse()

# output the total number of characters
print('Your input file has characters = ' + str(num_chars))
# output the total number of lines
print('Your input file has num_lines = ' + str(num_lines))
# output the total number of words
print('Your input file has num_words = ' + str(num_words))

print('\n The 30 most frequent words are \n')

# print the number of words as a count from the text file with the sum of each word used within the text
i = 1
for count, word in lst[:10000]:
print('%2s.  %4s %s' % (i, count, word))
i += 1
</code></pre>

<p>Thanks</p>