I have a long dictionary which looks like this:
name = 'Barack.'
name_last = 'Obama!'
street_name = "President Streeet?"
list_of_slot_names = {'name':name, 'name_last':name_last, 'street_name':street_name}
I want to remove the punctation for every slot (name, name_last,...).
I could do it this way:
name = name.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
name_last = name_last.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
street_name = street_name.translate(str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation))
Do you know a shorter (more compact) way to write this?
Result:
>>> print(name, name_last, street_name)
>>> Barack Obama President Streeet
name = 'Barack.'
name_last = 'Obama!'
empty_slot = None
street_name = "President Streeet?"
print([str_.strip('.?!') for str_ in (name, name_last, empty_slot, street_name) if str_ is not None])
-> Barack Obama President Streeet
Unless you also want to remove them from the middle. Then do this
import re
name = 'Barack.'
name_last = 'Obama!'
empty_slot = None
street_name = "President Streeet?"
print([re.sub('[.?!]+',"",str_) for str_ in (name, name_last, empty_slot, street_name) if str_ is not None])