Textblob

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Bug fixes:

- Remove usage of deprecated cElementTree (:issue:`339`).
Thanks :user:`tirkarthi` for reporting and for the PR.
- Address ``SyntaxWarning`` on Python 3.12 (:pr:`418`).
Thanks :user:`smontanaro` for the PR.

Removals:

- ``TextBlob.translate()`` and ``TextBlob.detect_language``, and ``textblob.translate``
are removed. Use the official Google Translate API instead (:issue:`215`).
- Remove ``textblob.compat``.

Support:

- Support Python 3.8-3.12. Older versions are no longer supported.
- Support nltk>=3.8.

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Bug fixes:

- Fix translation and language detection (:issue:`395`).
Thanks :user:`sudoguy` for the patch.

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Features:

- Performance improvement: Use ``chain.from_iterable`` in ``_text.py``
to improve runtime and memory usage (:pr:`333`). Thanks :user:`cool-RR` for the PR.

Other changes:

- Remove usage of `ctypes` (:pr:`354`). Thanks :user:`casatir`.

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Deprecations:

- ``TextBlob.translate()`` and ``TextBlob.detect_language`` are deprecated. Use the official Google Translate API instead (:issue:`215`).

Other changes:

- *Backwards-incompatible*: Drop support for Python 3.4.
- Test against Python 3.7 and Python 3.8.
- Pin NLTK to ``nltk<3.5`` on Python 2 (:issue:`315`).

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Bug fixes:

- Fix bug when ``Word`` string type after pos_tags is not a ``str``
(:pr:`255`). Thanks :user:`roman-y-korolev` for the patch.

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Bug fixes:

- Fix bug that raised a ``RuntimeError`` when executing methods that
delegate to ``pattern.en`` (:issue:`230`). Thanks :user:`vvaezian`
for the report and thanks :user:`danong` for the fix.
- Fix methods of ``WordList`` that modified the list in-place by
removing the internal `_collection` variable (:pr:`235`). Thanks
:user:`jammmo` for the PR.