def preprocess()

in whisper/normalizers/english.py [0:0]

• 20 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def preprocess(self, s: str):
        # replace "<number> and a half" with "<number> point five"
        results = []

        segments = re.split(r"\band\s+a\s+half\b", s)
        for i, segment in enumerate(segments):
            if len(segment.strip()) == 0:
                continue
            if i == len(segments) - 1:
                results.append(segment)
            else:
                results.append(segment)
                last_word = segment.rsplit(maxsplit=2)[-1]
                if last_word in self.decimals or last_word in self.multipliers:
                    results.append("point five")
                else:
                    results.append("and a half")

        s = " ".join(results)

        # put a space at number/letter boundary
        s = re.sub(r"([a-z])([0-9])", r"\1 \2", s)
        s = re.sub(r"([0-9])([a-z])", r"\1 \2", s)

        # but remove spaces which could be a suffix
        s = re.sub(r"([0-9])\s+(st|nd|rd|th|s)\b", r"\1\2", s)

        return s