How to remove special characters except space from a file in python?

Question

I have a huge corpus of text (line by line) and I want to remove special characters but sustain the space and structure of the string.

hello? there A-Z-R_T(,**)         


        

Answer 1

you can try this

import re
sentance = '''hello? there A-Z-R_T(,**), world, welcome to python. this **should? the next line#followed- by@ an#other %million^ %%like $this.'''
res = re.sub('[!,*)@#%(&$_?.^]', '', sentance)
print(res)

re.sub('["]') -> here you can add which symbol you want to remove