import re def postcor(blist): crlist = blist remrow = [] for i in range(len(crlist)-1): if len(crlist[i][0]) <= 1 or len(crlist[i][1]) <= 1 or crlist[i][2] == "other": remrow += [crlist[i]] continue xlt = re.findall(r'[a-zA-Z]', crlist[i][0]) if len(xlt)==0: remrow += [crlist[i]] continue xlt = re.findall(r'[a-zA-Z]', crlist[i][1]) if len(xlt) == 0: remrow += [crlist[i]] continue for j in range(i+1,len(crlist)): if re.sub(r"(-|'| |_)", "", crlist[i][0]).lower() == re.sub(r"(-|'| |_)", "", crlist[j][0]).lower(): if len(crlist[i][0]) < len(crlist[j][0]): crlist[j][0] = crlist[i][0] elif len(crlist[i][0]) > len(crlist[j][0]): crlist[i][0] = crlist[j][0] if re.sub(r"(-|'| |_)", "", crlist[i][1]).lower() == re.sub(r"(-|'| |_)", "", crlist[j][1]).lower(): if len(crlist[i][1]) < len(crlist[j][1]): crlist[j][1] = crlist[i][1] elif len(crlist[i][1]) > len(crlist[j][1]): crlist[i][1] = crlist[j][1] if len(crlist[i][0])-len(crlist[j][0]) == 1 and crlist[j][0] in crlist[i][0] and crlist[i][0][-1] == "s": crlist[i][0] = crlist[j][0] elif len(crlist[i][0])-len(crlist[j][0]) == -1 and crlist[i][0] in crlist[j][0] and crlist[j][0][-1] == "s": crlist[j][0] = crlist[i][0] if len(crlist[i][1])-len(crlist[j][1]) == 1 and crlist[j][1] in crlist[i][1] and crlist[i][1][-1] == "s": crlist[i][0] = crlist[j][0] elif len(crlist[i][1])-len(crlist[j][1]) == -1 and crlist[i][1] in crlist[j][1] and crlist[j][1][-1] == "s": crlist[j][1] = crlist[i][1] for rw in remrow: crlist.remove(rw) return crlist