featuretools.primitives.NumWords#

class featuretools.primitives.NumWords[source]#

Determines the number of words in a string. Words are sequences of characters delimited by whitespace.

Examples

>>> num_words = NumWords()
>>> num_words(['This is a string',
...            'Two words',
...            'no-spaces',
...            'Also works with sentences. Second sentence!']).tolist()
[4, 2, 1, 6]

__init__()#

Methods

`__init__`()
`flatten_nested_input_types`(input_types)	Flattens nested column schema inputs into a single list.
`generate_name`(base_feature_names)
`generate_names`(base_feature_names)
`get_args_string`()
`get_arguments`()
`get_description`(input_column_descriptions[, ...])
`get_filepath`(filename)
`get_function`()

Attributes

`base_of`
`base_of_exclude`
`commutative`
`compatibility`	Additional compatible libraries
`default_value`	Default value this feature returns if no data found.
`description_template`
`input_types`	woodwork.ColumnSchema types of inputs
`max_stack_depth`
`name`	Name of the primitive
`number_output_features`	Number of columns in feature matrix associated with this feature
`return_type`	ColumnSchema type of return
`series_library`
`stack_on`
`stack_on_exclude`
`stack_on_self`
`uses_calc_time`
`uses_full_dataframe`