Replace special characters in a string in Python

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One way is to use re.sub, that’s my preferred way.

import re
my_str = "hey th~!ere"
my_new_string = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9 \n\.]', '', my_str)
print my_new_string

Output:

hey there

Another way is to use re.escape:

import string
import re

my_str = "hey th~!ere"

chars = re.escape(string.punctuation)
print re.sub(r'['+chars+']', '',my_str)

Output:

hey there

Just a small tip about parameters style in python by PEP-8 parameters should be remove_special_chars and not removeSpecialChars

Also if you want to keep the spaces just change [^a-zA-Z0-9 \n\.] to [^a-zA-Z0-9\n\.]

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