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Help needed.. How to remove punctuation from words?

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1st Jul 2020, 2:05 PM
Omar Jafar
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6 Answers
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from string import punctuation myinput = input() for x in punctuation: # or use something like..for x in "?#~[]*&^%$£()\"\'!": myinput = myinput.replace(x, '')
1st Jul 2020, 2:19 PM
rodwynnejones
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Omar Jafar, thanks! I used a list comprehension, to create a new list, except using punctuation. The print statement puts all calculation together in one line. This can also be done in multiple steps.
1st Jul 2020, 3:47 PM
Lothar
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This is a sample done in the sense of 'pythonic way': from math import ceil from string import punctuation ess = input().split() ess1 = [i for i in ' '.join(ess) if i not in punctuation] print(ceil((sum([len(i) for i in ess1])) / len(ess)))
1st Jul 2020, 3:06 PM
Lothar
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𝐊𝐢𝐢𝐛𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐥 Lothar I tried your codes too, interesting logic.
1st Jul 2020, 3:35 PM
Omar Jafar
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How about string methods eg. isalpha(),isalmum() etc.? input_string = input() c=0 k=len(n.split()) for i in input_string: if(i.isalpha()): c=c+1 then you do your division and round from there.
1st Jul 2020, 2:28 PM
Tomiwa Joseph
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Thanx you guys it worked. Used a for lor loop to replace punctuations in input string with white space So the split() returns a list of words only (without punctuations)
1st Jul 2020, 3:06 PM
Omar Jafar
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