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def cleanText(text):
    exclude = [")","(",'.','-',':','"',"'",",","&","$",u'"',u"'",";",u"&","`","’"]
    #dd = {ord(c):None for c in badchars}
    #tx = text.translate(dd)
    #tx = text.translate(string.punctuation)
    #print(text)
    text = ''.join(ch for ch in text if ch not in exclude)
    text = str(text)
    return text