Stripping text of words and punctutations

stripText.py

 
 text = raw_input()
 
 # split text into words based on white space and strip punctuation
  texts = [word.strip(string.punctuation) for word in text.split()]
  
  # remove words with length 0
  texts = [word for word in texts if len(word)!=0]
  
  # to remove punctuation from words which are only separated by punctuation
  # no whitespace e.g. "abc,def.ghi"
  texts = [re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]", " ", word) for word in texts]
  texts = [x for word in texts for x in word.split()]