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+import re
+import heapq
+import nltk
+nltk.download('stopwords')
+nltk.download('punkt')
+def extractive_summarizer(content):
+  sent_list = sentences = nltk.sent_tokenize(content)
+  corpus = []
+  for i in range(len(sentences)):
+      dic = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z]',' ',sentences[i])
+      corpus.append(dic)
+  stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
+  extra_stopwords = ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z','A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z','.',',']
+  stopwords.extend(extra_stopwords)
+  spec_char = ' !@#$%^&*()_+{}|:M<>?>,./;][=-\1234567890'
+  exact_word_frequencies = {}
+  word_frequencies = {}
+  for word in nltk.word_tokenize(content.lower()):
+    if word not in stopwords and word not in spec_char:
+        if word not in word_frequencies.keys():
+            word_frequencies[word] = 1
+        else:
+            word_frequencies[word] += 1
+  exact_word_frequencies = dict(sorted(word_frequencies.items(), key=lambda item: item[1],reverse = True))
+  maximum_frequncy = max(exact_word_frequencies.values())
+
+  for word in exact_word_frequencies.keys():
+    word_frequencies[word] = (exact_word_frequencies[word]/maximum_frequncy)
+  sentence_scores = {}
+  for sent in corpus:
+    for word in nltk.word_tokenize(sent.lower()):
+        if word in word_frequencies.keys():
+            if len(sent.split(' ')) < 30:
+                if sent not in sentence_scores.keys():
+                    sentence_scores[sent] = word_frequencies[word]
+                else:
+                    sentence_scores[sent] += word_frequencies[word]
+  summary_sentences = heapq.nlargest(round(0.2*len(corpus)), sentence_scores, key=sentence_scores.get)
+
+  summary = '.'.join(summary_sentences)
+  summary = summary.replace('  ',',') 
+  return summary