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

Replace by ''?.

What's the difference between translating all ; into '' and remove all ;?

Here is to remove all ;:

s = 'dsda;;dsd;sad'
table = string.maketrans('','')
string.translate(s, table, ';')

And you can do your replacement with translate.