evaluation.gaia.scorer

normalize_str

def normalize_str(input_str, remove_punct=True) -> str

Normalize a string by:

• Removing all white spaces
• Optionally removing punctuation (if remove_punct is True)
• Converting to lowercase

Arguments:

• input_str: str, the string to normalize
• remove_punct: bool, whether to remove punctuation (default: True)

Returns:

• str, the normalized string