Split word in Python

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I am trying to use re.split in python. I want to remove all these characters like " , ; < > { } [ ] / \ ? ! .I am trying to do something like this-

re.split("[, \_!?,;:-]+", word)

How can I add characters like " ( ) or < > ' so that they can also be removed?

Edit

re.split('\W+',word)

This works fine but it is not removing underscore symbol. How can I also remove underscore?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3939361/remove-specific-characters-from-a-string-in-python — pwilmot, Nov 28 '15 at 05:16
Are you trying to remove all non-alphanumeric characters? For instance, you end up with only characters a-z, A-Z and 0-9? — sberry, Nov 28 '15 at 05:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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checkout the str.translate function for example in python 2.6+

line = line.translate(None, " ?.!/;:")

or in python 3+

line = line.translate(" ?.!/;:")

see Remove specific characters from a string in python

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Nov 28 '15 at 05:19

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '15 at 05:22

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Try:

re.split('\W+|\_', word)

Also just remove them:

re.sub('\W+|\_', '', word)

Take a look at the document for more details.

answered Nov 28 '15 at 05:22

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