Fast punctuation removal with pandas

Question

This is a self-answered post. Below I outline a common problem in the NLP domain and propose a few performant methods to solve it.

Oftentimes the need arises to remo

Answer 1

Interesting enough that vectorized Series.str.translate method is still slightly slower compared to Vanilla Python str.translate():

def pd_translate(df):
    return df.assign(text=df['text'].str.translate(transtab))