Python, remove all non-alphabet chars from string

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Use re.sub

import re

regex = re.compile('[^a-zA-Z]')
#First parameter is the replacement, second parameter is your input string
regex.sub('', 'ab3d*E')
#Out: 'abdE'

Alternatively, if you only want to remove a certain set of characters (as an apostrophe might be okay in your input…)

regex = re.compile('[,\.!?]') #etc.

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