Best way to strip punctuation from a string

Question

It seems like there should be a simpler way than:

import string
s = \"string. With. Punctuation?\" # Sample string 
out = s.translate(string.maketrans(\"\",\         


        

Answer 1

#FIRST METHOD
#Storing all punctuations in a variable    
punctuation='!?,.:;"\')(_-'
newstring='' #Creating empty string
word=raw_input("Enter string: ")
for i in word:
     if(i not in punctuation):
                  newstring+=i
print "The string without punctuation is",newstring

#SECOND METHOD
word=raw_input("Enter string: ")
punctuation='!?,.:;"\')(_-'
newstring=word.translate(None,punctuation)
print "The string without punctuation is",newstring


#Output for both methods
Enter string: hello! welcome -to_python(programming.language)??,
The string without punctuation is: hello welcome topythonprogramminglanguage