Changing Punctuation to White space(space character)

Question

As of now it takes the punctuation out, but I cannot figure out how to make it add a space instead of just taking out the punctuation. Currently I have:

punctuation = "!\"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~"
def remove_punct(theStr):
    theStr_sans_punct = ""
    for letter in theStr:
        if letter not in punctuation:
            theStr_sans_punct = theStr_sans_punct + letter
    return theStr_sans_punct

It's in a interactive textbook so it will automatically do the tests on their site.

Why not use [re.sub](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16720541/python-string-replace-regular-expression)? — Jeroen Heier, Nov 21 '17 at 04:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 21 '17 at 04:17

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By adding an else to your code:

punctuation = "!\"#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~"
def remove_punct(theStr):
    theStr_sans_punct = ""
    for letter in theStr:
        if letter not in punctuation:
            theStr_sans_punct = theStr_sans_punct + letter
        else:
            theStr_sans_punct = theStr_sans_punct + " "
return theStr_sans_punct

answered Nov 21 '17 at 04:17

Foxan Ng

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Thank you sir I do appreciate! – John doe Nov 21 '17 at 04:18
@john-doe Glad to help. If it solves your issue, you can [accept this answer](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235/313506) to positively close the question. – Foxan Ng Dec 22 '17 at 05:39

Changing Punctuation to White space(space character)

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