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Created July 13, 2020 15:59
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regular expressions to remove punctuation
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regex_punct.py
import re
#letters only
raw_text = "this is a test. To demonstrate 2 regex expressions!!"
letters_only_text = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z]", " ", raw_text)
#keep numbers
letnum_text = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]+", " ",raw_text )
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