tokenizer helper function

Author: rbs333

redisvl/query/query.py

@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ def __init__(
         nltk.download('stopwords')
         self._stopwords = set(stopwords.words('english'))
 
-
         super().__init__(query_string)
 
         # Handle query modifiers
@@ -479,6 +478,7 @@ def __init__(
 
     def _tokenize_query(self, user_query: str) -> str:
         """Convert a raw user query to a redis full text query joined by ORs"""
+
         words = word_tokenize(user_query)
 
         tokens = [token.strip().strip(",").lower() for token in user_query.split()]
@@ -499,6 +499,12 @@ def _build_query_string(self) -> str:
         #TODO is this method even needed? use 
         return text_and_filter
 
+# from redisvl.utils.token_escaper import TokenEscaper
+# escaper = TokenEscaper()
+# def tokenize_and_escape_query(user_query: str) -> str:
+#     """Convert a raw user query to a redis full text query joined by ORs"""
+#     tokens = [escaper.escape(token.strip().strip(",").replace("“", "").replace("”", "").lower()) for token in user_query.split()]
+#     return " | ".join([token for token in tokens if token and token not in stopwords_en])
 
 class HybridQuery(VectorQuery, TextQuery):
     def __init__():