How do I replace punctuation in a string in Python?

Question

I would like to replace (and not remove) all punctuation characters by \" \" in a string in Python.

Is there something efficient of the following flavo

Answer 1

There is a more robust solution which relies on a regex exclusion rather than inclusion through an extensive list of punctuation characters.

import re
print(re.sub('[^\w\s]', '', 'This is, fortunately. A Test! string'))
#Output - 'This is fortunately A Test string'

The regex catches anything which is not an alpha-numeric or whitespace character