Python Program - Remove Punctuations From a String

here's a Python program that removes punctuations from a string:

# Import the string module to access the list of punctuation characters
import string

# Define a string with punctuations
my_string = "Hello, World! How are you today?"

# Remove punctuations using the translate method
no_punctuations = my_string.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))

# Print the new string without punctuations
print(no_punctuations)

In this program, we first import the string module, which provides a list of punctuation characters. We then define a string my_string that contains some punctuations.

To remove the punctuations, we use the translate() method on the string. The translate() method takes a translation table as an argument, which maps each character to its replacement. We can generate a translation table using the str.maketrans() method, which takes three arguments: the characters to be replaced (in this case, an empty string), the characters to replace them with (also an empty string), and the characters to be deleted (in this case, the list of punctuation characters from the string module).

We then call the translate() method on the string my_string with the translation table as its argument, and store the new string without punctuations in the no_punctuations variable.

Finally, we print the new string without punctuations using the print() function.

Note that this program only removes the punctuation characters from the string, but not other non-alphabetic characters such as numbers or whitespace. If you need to remove those as well, you can modify the translation table accordingly.