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

Question

I want to remove all punctuation marks from a text file using .translate() method. It seems to work well under Python 2.x but under Python 3.4 it doesn\'t seem to do anythin

Answer 1

The call signature of str.translate has changed and apparently the parameter deletechars has been removed. You could use

import re
fline = re.sub('['+string.punctuation+']', '', fline)

instead, or create a table as shown in the other answer.