Is there a way to remove punctuation at the start and end of each word in string but not the middle? Python

Question

write a function beautify_sentence(sentence, punctuation) which returns a new sentence (type string) that removes all the specified punctuations from words (words are separated by a white space).

For example, sentence "?hello !mango! and, ban,ana yum apple!" with punctuation "?!," would result in returning a string "hello mango and ban,ana yum apple".

Notice that "ban,ana" still contains comma.

Answer 1

This should do it for you.

from string import punctuation

a="""'?hello !mango! and, ban,ana yum apple!',  '?!,' """
new=[i.strip(punctuation) for i in a.split()]
print(" ".join(new))

output:

hello mango and ban,ana yum apple