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tyler-austin/strip_unwanted_punctuation.py

Created May 31, 2017 19:42
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strip unwanted punctuation
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strip_unwanted_punctuation.py
PUNCTUATION = '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^`{|}~'
def remove_punctuation(in_string):
for punc in PUNCTUATION:
in_string = in_string.replace(punc, '')
return in_string
bad_string = 'I like (love) 2 make - life hard _ 4 my programmers #$AD!!!!'
bad_string = remove_punctuation(bad_string)
print(bad_string)
'''
>>> 'I like love 2 make life hard _ 4 my programmers AD'
'''
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