Removing Punctuation From Python List Items

Question

I have a list like

[\'hello\', \'...\', \'h3.a\', \'ds4,\']

this should turn into

[\'hello\', \'h3a\', \'ds4\']
         


        

Answer 1

Use string.translate:

>>> import string
>>> test_case = ['hello', '...', 'h3.a', 'ds4,']
>>> [s.translate(None, string.punctuation) for s in test_case]
['hello', '', 'h3a', 'ds4']

For the documentation of translate, see http://docs.python.org/library/string.html