negationsimplify.py

"""
1. Create a sentence "i do not not like not to swim"
2 . create a list of negations 

2. count all negations in the sentence
3. if  the amount of negations is even, then remove all negations from the sentence, else remove all but the first
"""


negations = ["not", "no","n't"]

sentence = "i do not not like not to swim"

# Counting the number of negations
count = 0
for word in sentence.split():
    if word in negations:
        count += 1

# Removing the negations accordingly
if count % 2 == 0:
    new_sentence = ""
    for word in sentence.split():
        if word not in negations:
            new_sentence += word + " "

else:
    new_sentence = ""
    first_negation = True
    for word in sentence.split():
        if word not in negations or first_negation:
            new_sentence += word + " "
            if word in negations:
                first_negation = False

print(new_sentence) # i do like to swim