How to remove punctuation marks from a string in Python 3.x using .translate()?

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You have to create a translation table using maketrans that you pass to the str.translate method.

In Python 3.1 and newer, maketrans is now a static-method on the str type, so you can use it to create a translation of each punctuation you want to None.

import string

# Thanks to Martijn Pieters for this improved version

# This uses the 3-argument version of str.maketrans
# with arguments (x, y, z) where 'x' and 'y'
# must be equal-length strings and characters in 'x'
# are replaced by characters in 'y'. 'z'
# is a string (string.punctuation here)
# where each character in the string is mapped
# to None
translator = str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)

# This is an alternative that creates a dictionary mapping
# of every character from string.punctuation to None (this will
# also work)
#translator = str.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(string.punctuation))

s="string with "punctuation" inside of it! Does this work? I hope so."

# pass the translator to the string's translate method.
print(s.translate(translator))

This should output: 

string with punctuation inside of it Does this work I hope so

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