While performing one may require to remove punctuations from the text. There is an easy way to do this in Python. Using the ‘string’ module we can do it. e.g.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import string

txt = open(sys.argv[1],'r').read()
for punct in string.punctuation:
    txt = txt.replace(punct,"")
print txt

The punctuations contained in the ‘string.punctuation are ` ‘!”#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_{|}~' Total 33 punctuation marks.

If you would like to retain any of the punctuation marks in the above list in your text, you can modify the loop. For example I would like to retain “%” and “$” in the text. For the same code will be like

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import string

txt = open(sys.argv[1],'r').read()
excludu = ['$','%']
for punct in string.punctuation:
    if not punct in excludu:
        txt = txt.replace(punct,"")
print txt

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