Is there a faster way to strip punctuation from a string than this?
from string import ascii_letters
def strip_punctuation(mystring):
newstring = ''
for x in mystring:
if x in ascii_letters:
newstring += x
else:
pass
return newstring
In my decryption program I realized I need to strip all the
punctuation, and that's the first thing I came up with. I couldn't
find a built-in function in the time it took to roll my own.
TIA,
Wayne
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