On 2018-05-10, Albert-Jan Roskam <[email protected]> wrote:
> If a punctuation symbol is in your string: Replace that symbol
> with an empty string.
>
>=>>> maybe something like
>
> import re
> no_interpunction = re.sub("[%s]" % re.escape(string.punctuation), '',
> sentence)
str.translate can be used instead of re.
# Compute only once somewhere
punctuation_removal_table = str.maketrans({c: None for c in string.punctuation})
no_interpunction = sentence.translate(punctuation_removal_table)
Unfortunately you'll remove all the apostrophes and dashes, both
of which could be considered parts of words.
--
Neil Cerutti
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