{"id":20707,"date":"2020-08-02T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/?p=20707"},"modified":"2023-12-01T03:57:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:57:17","slug":"python-remove-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/python-remove-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Punctuation Python: A Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to Remove Punctuation from a Python String <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are a lot of cases where you may need to remove punctuation from a string<\/a>. You may want to remove any punctuation from a string number that a user inserts into your program so that you can convert it into an integer. You may want to remove punctuation from a username.
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Python has you covered. There\u2019s a number of different ways you can remove punctuation from a string. In this guide, we\u2019re going to talk about how to remove punctuation from a string using the join()<\/code> method and the translate()<\/code> method.
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Without further ado, let’s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remove Punctuation Python: All Punctuation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re building a payments form for a bank.
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This form should ask a user for two pieces of information: the number of the account to which they want to transfer money, and the amount they want to transfer.
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Let\u2019s start by collecting this information. We can do this using input() statements<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

account_number = input("Enter the account number to which you want to transfer money: ")\nvalue = input("Enter the amount you would like to transfer: ")<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
We want to remove any punctuation from these values. This is because we are going to convert them to floating-point numbers later on. Floating-point numbers cannot contain punctuation marks, aside from a full stop (or a \u201cperiod\u201d).
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We can remove all punctuation from these values using the translate()<\/code> method. This method makes a copy of a string with a specific set of values substituted.
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To make this work, we’re going to use the string.punctuation method. This method, which is part of the \u201cstring\u201d library, gives us a list of all punctuation marks.
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Let\u2019s remove all the punctuation from both \u201caccount_number\u201d and \u2018value\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
import string\n\naccount_number = input("Enter the account number to which you want to transfer money: ")\nvalue = input("Enter the amount you would like to transfer: ")\n\nfinal_account_number = account_number.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)\n)\nfinal_value = value.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)\n)\n\nprint(final_account_number)\nprint(final_value)<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
First, we import the \u201cstring\u201d library. This gives us access to a method called string.punctuation which returns a list of punctuation marks. We then collect input from the user.
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Next, we use the translate()<\/code> method on both of our strings. The translate()<\/code> method replaces every instance of a punctuation mark with the value \u201c\u201d in our strings. We use the str.maketrans()<\/code> method to support the translation.
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Let\u2019s run our code and see what happens:
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Enter the account number to which you want to transfer money: 22-22-2222\nEnter the amount you would like to transfer: 10.50\n22222222\n1050<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
We added hyphens to the account number and a full stop to the amount we wanted to transfer. In our output, you can see that these characters have been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remove Punctuation Python: Single Characters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you want to remove only a certain set of punctuation from a string? Python has your back.
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You can use the join() method<\/a> to create a copy of a string without certain values present.
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We\u2019ve been tasked to build a form that asks a bank account holder to choose a username for their online account. Question marks, full stops, colons, semi colons, and exclamation marks are not allowed. Other special characters, like an underscore, are allowed.
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We can remove these individual pieces of punctuation using the join method:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
username = input("Enter a username for your online banking account: ")\n\nfinal_username = "".join(u for u in username if u not in ("?", ".", ";", ":", "!"))\n\nprint(final_username)<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
First, we ask a user to choose a username. We store that value in a variable<\/a> called \u201cusername\u201d. Next, we use a join()<\/code> statement to create a new string without special characters. The join()<\/code> statement starts with an empty string and populates it with all the characters that are not in the list we specify.
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The join()<\/code> statement uses a list comprehension to loop through every character in the \u201cusername\u201d string. As long as that character is not in our list of special characters, it is added to the new string. Otherwise, the character is filtered out.
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Let\u2019s run our code:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Enter a username for your online banking account: henry_peters!\nhenry_peters<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Our code removed the exclamation mark from the username. It left the underscore. While an underscore is a piece of punctuation, we did not filter it out in our list comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are numerous ways to remove punctuation from a string in Python. To remove all punctuation from a string, you can use the translate()<\/code> method. You need to use this method with the string.punctuation method, which returns a list of punctuation to filter out from a string.
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To remove certain punctuation characters from a string, you can use a custom list comprehension. Inside your list comprehension you can specify the exact characters that you want to remove.
Now you\u2019re ready to remove punctuation from a Python<\/a> string like an expert!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How to Remove Punctuation from a Python String There are a lot of cases where you may need to remove punctuation from a string. You may want to remove any punctuation from a string number that a user inserts into your program so that you can convert it into an integer. 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