How do I replace punctuation in a string in Python?

Question

I would like to replace (and not remove) all punctuation characters by \" \" in a string in Python.

Is there something efficient of the following flavo

Answer 1

Modified solution from Best way to strip punctuation from a string in Python

import string
import re

regex = re.compile('[%s]' % re.escape(string.punctuation))
out = regex.sub(' ', "This is, fortunately. A Test! string")
# out = 'This is  fortunately  A Test  string'