replace all punctuation in string with another string in python

Question

i want to replace all punctuation with string "PUNCTUATION"

. I have many long string , so i need an efficient code.

for example i have some string like this

s = "Hello. World, Awesome! Really?"

i want the output to become something like this

replaced_s = "Hello PUNCTUATION World PUNCTUATION Awesome PUNCTUATION Really PUNCTUATION"

i think i can use replace but wont it take too long? any solution for this?

Answer 1

Try the string.punctuation

import string
s = "Hello. World, Awesome! Really?"
for c in string.punctuation:
    s = s.replace(c,' PUNCTUATION ')
s
#'Hello PUNCTUATION  World PUNCTUATION  Awesome PUNCTUATION  Really PUNCTUATION '

Or use regex:

import re
s = "Hello. World, Awesome! Really?"
s = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]',' PUNCTUATION ',s)
re.sub(' +', ' ',s)
#'Hello PUNCTUATION World PUNCTUATION Awesome PUNCTUATION Really PUNCTUATION '