How to remove all punctuation symbol from a list of unicode text using regex in python 3?

Question

I want to remove all punctuation symbol from my list, which is unicode text. When I executed the code as shown, there was no effect on the list. No symbol has been removed from the list. Though there was no syntax error displayed. I would like to mention that text is in the Gujarati language. I successfully removed the digits from the list.

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filtered_words = [word for word in words if not re.search(r"[\P]+",word)]
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Answer 1

You don't need to use regex here.

You can use string.translate like this:

filtered_words == [word for word in words if word == word.translate(None, string.punctuation)]

If you must use regex then use:

filtered_words == [word for word in words if not re.search(ur'[^\w\s]', word)]

Check this Q&A or Unicode Punctuation detection