Australian Postcodes MCP Server

# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT # Copyright (C) 2022 Max Bachmann from __future__ import annotations import re _alnum_regex = re.compile(r"(?ui)\W") def default_process(sentence: str) -> str: """ This function preprocesses a string by: * removing all non alphanumeric characters * trimming whitespaces * converting all characters to lower case Parameters ---------- sentence : str String to preprocess Returns ------- processed_string : str processed string """ string_out = _alnum_regex.sub(" ", sentence) return string_out.strip().lower()