[CentralOH] Removing Punctuation

[pybokeh]

Thanks for this.

I thought I could replace a punctuation mark with a single white space 
by doing this:
S.translate(S.maketrans(" ", " ", string.punctuation))

But that didn't work.  Any ideas how to replace a punctuation mark with 
a single white space?

The reason being, what if there is no space after a punctuation mark or 
three periods were used:
"Mary had a little lamb...little lamb...little lamb! Do you know what 
Mary's problem is?No I do not!"

Then "isNo" ends up being counted as a word and also "lamblittle", so I 
want to prevent this by
replacing a punctuation mark with a singe white space instead of no 
white space.


On 01/20/2014 07:20 PM, Eric Floehr wrote:
>
>     Hmm, now I wonder how do I use the str.translate() method in
>     Python 3 to get rid of the
>     punctuation marks?
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> >>> import string
> >>> S = "Some, string! With punctuation."
> >>> S.translate(S.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
> 'Some string With punctuation'
>
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.maketrans
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