replace every character that is not a basic English letter or punctuation symbol regex python code example

Example 1: remove special characters from string python

>>> string = "Special $#! characters   spaces 888323"
>>> ''.join(e for e in string if e.isalnum())
'Specialcharactersspaces888323'

Example 2: clean punctuation from string python

s.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))