Taking punctuation out of a a python list

Question

I know there are tons of examples about removing punctuation but I want to know the most efficient way to do this. I have a list of words that I read from a txt file and split

wordlist = open('Tyger.txt', 'r').read().split()

What is the fastest way to check each word and remove any punctuation? I can do it with a bunch of code but I know it is not the easiest way.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I think the easiest way is to only extract words consisting of letters in the first place:

import re

with open("Tyger.txt") as f:
    words = re.findall("\w+", f.read())