Strip special characters and punctuation from a unicode string

Question

I\'m trying to remove the punctuation from a unicode string, which may contain non-ascii letters. I tried using the regex module:

import regex
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Answer 1

Try string module

import string,re
text = u"<Üäik>"
out = re.sub('[%s]' % re.escape(string.punctuation), '', text)
print out
print type(out)

Prints-

Üäik