drop punctuation python code example

Example 1: remove punctuations using python

# define punctuation
punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''

my_str = "Hello!!!, he said ---and went."

# To take input from the user
# my_str = input("Enter a string: ")

# remove punctuation from the string
no_punct = ""
for char in my_str:
   if char not in punctuations:
       no_punct = no_punct + char

# display the unpunctuated string
print(no_punct)

Example 2: python remove punctuation from text file

import string 
sentence = "Hey guys !, How are 'you' ?"
no_punc_txt = ""
for char in sentence:
   if char not in string.punctuation:
       no_punc_txt = no_punc_txt + char
print(no_punc_txt);                 # Hey guys  How are you 
# or:
no_punc_txt = sentence.translate(sentence.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
print(no_punc_txt);                 # Hey guys  How are you