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

In python3.x ,it can be done using :

import string
#make translator object
translator=str.maketrans('','',string.punctuation)
string_name=string_name.translate(translator)