Python - Removing Punctuation

Problem: You've a feature of text data and want to remove punctuaiton

Soluation: Define a function that uses translate with a dictionary of punctuation characters:

# Load libraries
import unicodedata
import sys

# Create text
text_data = ['Hi!!!! I. Love. This. Song....',
 '10000% Agree!!!! #LoveIT',
 'Right?!?!']

# Create a dictionary of punctuation characters
punctuation = dict.fromkeys(i for i in range(sys.maxunicode)
 if unicodedata.category(chr(i)).startswith('P'))

# For each string, remove any punctuation characters
[string.translate(punctuation) for string in text_data]

result: ['Hi I Love This Song', '10000 Agree LoveIT', 'Right']

 

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