Error while using translate() in Python

Question

I am trying to delete all punctuation marks from a sentence in python, but when i use this code:

 myString.translate(None, string.punctuation)

I get the error:

translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

and I couldn't solve the reason for the error.

That's the syntax for Python 2.x - are you using Python 3.x per chance? — Jon Clements, Apr 26 '16 at 15:42
More specifically, that's the syntax for byte strings. Unicode on python2.x wouldn't work here either, and byte-strings on python3.x do work (provided that you encode `string.punctuation` with the `'ascii'` codec ...) — mgilson, Apr 26 '16 at 15:47
Shucks... Had a cross-version answer ready but then the question was closed — jDo, Apr 26 '16 at 15:52
@PedroLobito But now i have additional problem- I have done as the above stackoverflow link suggests, but if there was no space between the punctuation mark and the word, the output becomes, one joined word; for example; input: " i am,a" , output: "i ama" instead I want the output to be "i am a". — Pela647, Apr 26 '16 at 16:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '16 at 15:52

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Remove all punctuation from a string:

import string
transtable = {ord(c): None for c in string.punctuation}
strp = line.translate(transtable)
strp

Example:

Input : "Hey, Lets check this out!?"

Output : 'Hey Lets check this out'

answered Apr 26 '16 at 15:52

Ani Menon

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