How to remove all the punctuation in a string Python

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For example   asking  hello  what s your name     Can I just do this   asking strip

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Strip won t work  It only removes leading and trailing instances  not everything in between  http   docs python org 2 library stdtypes html str strip  Having fun with filter   import string asking    hello  what s your name   predicate   lambda x x not in string punctuation filter predicate  asking

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import string  asking      join l for l in asking if l not in string punctuation    filter with string punctuation

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A really simple implementation is   out      join c for c in asking if c not in                  and keep adding any other types of punctuation   A more efficient way would be  import string stringIn    string with punctuation   out   stringIn translate stringIn maketrans         string punctuation    Edit  There is some more discussion on efficiency and other implementations here  Best way to strip punctuation from a string in Python

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This works  but there might be better solutions   asking  hello  what s your name   asking      join  c for c in asking if c not in              print asking

[python] How to remove all the punctuation in a string? (Python)

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