remove usernames from twitter data using python

Question

I have fetched some data from Twitter using python. now I want to pre process it. how can I remove usernames if the tweet has username between two words and there is no space am

Answer 1

Code

def remove_pattern(input_txt, pattern):
    r = re.findall(pattern, input_txt)
    for i in r:
        input_txt = re.sub(i, '', input_txt)
    return input_txt    

combi['tidy_tweet'] = np.vectorize(remove_pattern)(combi['tweet'], "@[\w]*") 

Result:-

Thanks :)