Strip special characters and punctuation from a unicode string

Question

I\'m trying to remove the punctuation from a unicode string, which may contain non-ascii letters. I tried using the regex module:

import regex
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Answer 1

\p{P} matches punctuation characters.

Those punctuation characters are

! ' # S % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ / ] ^ _ { | } ~

< and > are not punctuation characters. So they won't be removed.

Try this instead

re.sub('[\p{L}<>]+',"",text)