Python NLTK: Bigrams trigrams fourgrams

Question

I have this example and i want to know how to get this result. I have text and I tokenize it then I collect the bigram and trigram and fourgram like that

import nltk
from nltk import word_tokenize
from nltk.util import ngrams
text = "Hi How are you? i am fine and you"
token=nltk.word_tokenize(text)
bigrams=ngrams(token,2)

bigrams: [('Hi', 'How'), ('How', 'are'), ('are', 'you'), ('you', '?'), ('?', 'i'), ('i', 'am'), ('am', 'fine'), ('fine', 'and'), ('and', 'you')]

trigrams=ngrams(token,3)

trigrams: [('Hi', 'How', 'are'), ('How', 'are', 'you'), ('are', 'you', '?'), ('you', '?', 'i'), ('?', 'i', 'am'), ('i', 'am', 'fine'), ('am', 'fine', 'and'), ('fine', 'and', 'you')]

bigram [(a,b) (b,c) (c,d)]
trigram [(a,b,c) (b,c,d) (c,d,f)]
i want the new trigram should be [(c,d,f)]
which mean 
newtrigram = [('are', 'you', '?'),('?', 'i','am'),...etc

any idea will be helpful

Answer 1

If you apply some set theory (if I'm interpreting your question correctly), you'll see that the trigrams you want are simply elements [2:5], [4:7], [6:8], etc. of the token list.

You could generate them like this:

>>> new_trigrams = []
>>> c = 2
>>> while c < len(token) - 2:
...     new_trigrams.append((token[c], token[c+1], token[c+2]))
...     c += 2
>>> print new_trigrams
[('are', 'you', '?'), ('?', 'i', 'am'), ('am', 'fine', 'and')]