Stop-word elimination and stemmer in python

Question

I have a somewhat large document and want to do stop-word elimination and stemming on the words of this document with Python. Does anyone know an of the shelf package for these? If not a code which is fast enough for large documents is also welcome. Thanks

Answer 1

NLTK supports this.

Answer 2

If for some reason you don't want to use NLTK, you can try PyStemmer. For stop words just download a list (google it) and filter them out.