string.translate() with unicode data in python

Question

I have 3 API\'s that return json data to 3 dictionary variables. I am taking some of the values from the dictionary to process them. I read the specific values that I want t

Answer 1

I noticed that string.translate is deprecated. Since you are removing punctuation, not actually translating characters, you can use the re.sub function.

    >>> import re

    >>> s1="this.is a.string, with; (punctuation)."
    >>> s1
    'this.is a.string, with; (punctuation).'
    >>> re.sub("[\.\t\,\:;\(\)\.]", "", s1, 0, 0)
    'thisis astring with punctuation'
    >>>