If you have a Python list, and want to remove all punctuation, then you can do the following:
First get all punctuation by using string.punctuation
import string
print(string.punctuation)
Output:
!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
Option 1 – Using for
import string
words = ["hell'o", "Hi,", "bye bye", "good bye", ""]
new_words = []
for word in words:
if word == "":
words.remove(word)
else:
for letter in word:
if letter in string.punctuation:
word = word.replace(letter,"")
new_words.append(word)
print(new_words)
Option 2 – Using List Comprehensions
import string
words = ["hell'o", "Hi,", "bye bye", "good bye", ""]
words = [''.join(letter for letter in word if letter not in string.punctuation) for word in words if word]
print(words)
Option 3 – Using str.translate()
import string
words = ["hell'o", "Hi,", "bye bye", "good bye", ""]
words = [word.translate(string.punctuation) for word in words if word]
print(words)
