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Strip Non Alpha-Numeric
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stripNonAlphaNum.py
# Given a text string, remove all non-alphanumeric
# characters (using Unicode definition of alphanumeric).
def stripNonAlphaNum(text):
import re
return re.compile(r'\W+', re.UNICODE).split(text)
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