how to find and replace all the punctuation in python strings
#import the regex library (pip install it with -> "pip install regex"
import re
test_phrase = 'This is a string! Bust it has punctuation. How can we remove it?'
#We're going to replace the punctution with a whitespace
clean = ' '.join(re.findall('[^!.?]+', test_phrase))
# ^ Place the punctuation that you want
# to remove in the square brackets.
print(clean)
> 'This is a string But it has punctuation How can we remove it'