from nltk.corpus import stopwords

def removeStopwords( palabras ):
     return [ word for word in palabras if word not in stopwords.words('spanish') ]

palabras = ''' my text is here '''

>>> palabras = "Buenos dias"
>>> [c for c in palabras]
['B', 'u', 'e', 'n', 'a', 's', ' ', 'd', 'i', 'a', 's']

import re
from nltk.corpus import stopwords

scentence = 'El problema del matrimonio es que se acaba todas las noches despues de hacer el amor, y hay que volver a reconstruirlo todas las mananas antes del desayuno.'

#We only want to work with lowercase for the comparisons
scentence = scentence.lower()

#remove punctuation and split into seperate words
words = re.findall(r'w+', scentence,flags = re.UNICODE | re.LOCALE)

#This is the simple way to remove stop words
important_words=[]
for word in words:
    if word not in stopwords.words('spanish'):
        important_words.append(word)

print important_words

#This is the more pythonic way
important_words = filter(lambda x: x not in stopwords.words('spanish'), words)

print important_words

def remove_stopwords(sentence, language):
    return [ token for token in nltk.word_tokenize(sentence) if token.lower() not in stopwords.words(language) ]

>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()
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