Removing punctuation from a string
This Python code removes punctuation characters from a given text using a set comprehension. Here's how the code works:
- import string: This line imports the string module, which contains a string constant, string.punctuation, that includes all punctuation characters.
- text = "Hello, world! How's everything?": This line initializes a string named text with a sample text that contains punctuation.
- cleaned_text = {char for char in text if char not in string.punctuation}: This line uses a set comprehension to create the cleaned_text set. It iterates through each character char in the text and includes it in the cleaned_text set if it is not a punctuation character.
- for char in text: This part of the code iterates through each character in the text string.
- if char not in string.punctuation: It checks whether each character is not in the string.punctuation string, which contains punctuation characters.
- print(text): This line prints the original text to the console.
- print(cleaned_text): This line prints the cleaned_text set, which contains the characters from the original text, excluding the punctuation characters.
Source Code
import string
text = "Hello, world! How's everything?"
cleaned_text = {char for char in text if char not in string.punctuation}
print(text)
print(cleaned_text)
Output
Hello, world! How's everything?
{'e', ' ', 'g', 'o', 'h', 'd', 'l', 's', 'r', 'y', 'w', 't', 'H', 'n', 'v', 'i'}