Remove punctuations in a string

Asked Jul 29 '16 at 21:41

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I have a list of strings that I would love to change to lower cases and remove punctuations. I am able to change them to lower cases but fail to remove punctuations. Example of the string:

s = 'He is the best doctor. I highly recommend him."

With

slower = s.lower().split(" ")

I obtain

['he', 'is', 'the', 'best', 'doctor.', 'i', 'like', 'him.']

This is good, but I still would like to detach punctuations from the words.

What's the easy way to do this? Thank you!!

asked Jul 29 '16 at 21:41

yearntolearn

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This should be useful. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265960/best-way-to-strip-punctuation-from-a-string-in-python – Rockybilly Jul 29 '16 at 21:43
Or this http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/110419/removing-punctuation-and-lowercasing-a-string – desimusxvii Jul 29 '16 at 21:44
This is also viable http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16050952/how-to-remove-all-the-punctuation-in-a-string-python – Rockybilly Jul 29 '16 at 21:45
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@desimusxvii, codereview is for working code – Padraic Cunningham Jul 29 '16 at 21:47
Thank you very much for the inputs! – yearntolearn Jul 29 '16 at 21:47
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Easy quick way to do it: `s.lower().replace('.','').split(' ')` – Tsangares Jul 29 '16 at 21:47
Thank you @Tsangares, this is really cool. – yearntolearn Jul 29 '16 at 21:49
@PadraicCunningham While you are correct that Code Review is for working code, we require the code to be fully doing what the OP intended and not requesting changes in the functionality. – Jul 29 '16 at 21:50
@Hosch250, that was the point I thought I was making. – Padraic Cunningham Jul 29 '16 at 21:51
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OK, thanks for knowing CR's scope. – Jul 29 '16 at 21:52

Remove punctuations in a string

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