Add/remove custom stop words with spacy

Question

What is the best way to add/remove stop words with spacy? I am using token.is_stop function and would like to make some custom changes to the set. I was looking at the docum

Answer 1

In latest version following would remove the word out of the list:

spacy_stopwords = spacy.lang.en.stop_words.STOP_WORDS
spacy_stopwords.remove('not')