strip punctuation with regex - python

Question

I need to use regex to strip punctuation at the start and end of a word. It seems like regex would be the best option for this. I don\'t want punctuation r

Answer 1

I think this function will be helpful and concise in removing punctuation:

import re
def remove_punct(text):
    new_words = []
    for word in text:
        w = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]','',word) #remove everything except words and space#how 
                                        #to remove underscore as well
        w = re.sub(r'\_','',w)
        new_words.append(w)
    return new_words