Trying to count words in a string

Question

I\'m trying to analyze the contents of a string. If it has a punctuation mixed in the word I want to replace them with spaces.

For example, If Johnny.Appleseed!is:a*good

Answer 1

for ltr in ('!', '.', ...) # insert rest of punctuation
     stringss = strings.replace(ltr, ' ')
return len(stringss.split(' '))