下面是一个正则表达式，用于匹配不是字母或数字的字符串:

[^A-Za-z0-9]+

下面是执行正则表达式替换的Python命令:

re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9]+', '', mystring)

使用翻译:

import string

def clean(instr):
    return instr.translate(None, string.punctuation + ' ')

警告:仅适用于ascii字符串。

import re
my_string = """Strings are amongst the most popular data types in Python. We can create the strings by enclosing characters in quotes. Python treats single quotes the 

和双引号一样。”＂＂

# if we need to count the word python that ends with or without ',' or '.' at end

count = 0
for i in text:
    if i.endswith("."):
        text[count] = re.sub("^([a-z]+)(.)?$", r"\1", i)
    count += 1
print("The count of Python : ", text.count("python"))

这将删除字符串中的所有特殊字符、标点符号和空格，只包含数字和字母。

import re

sample_str = "Hel&&lo %% Wo$#rl@d"

# using isalnum()
print("".join(k for k in sample_str if k.isalnum()))


# using regex
op2 = re.sub("[^A-Za-z]", "", sample_str)
print(f"op2 = ", op2)


special_char_list = ["$", "@", "#", "&", "%"]

# using list comprehension
op1 = "".join([k for k in sample_str if k not in special_char_list])
print(f"op1 = ", op1)


# using lambda function
op3 = "".join(filter(lambda x: x not in special_char_list, sample_str))
print(f"op3 = ", op3)

最通用的方法是使用unicodedata表的“类别”，它对每个字符进行分类。例如，下面的代码只过滤基于类别的可打印字符:

import unicodedata
# strip of crap characters (based on the Unicode database
# categorization:
# http://www.sql-und-xml.de/unicode-database/#kategorien

PRINTABLE = set(('Lu', 'Ll', 'Nd', 'Zs'))

def filter_non_printable(s):
    result = []
    ws_last = False
    for c in s:
        c = unicodedata.category(c) in PRINTABLE and c or u'#'
        result.append(c)
    return u''.join(result).replace(u'#', u' ')

查看上面给出的所有相关类别的URL。当然你也可以过滤 按标点符号分类。

#!/usr/bin/python
import re

strs = "how much for the maple syrup? $20.99? That's ricidulous!!!"
print strs
nstr = re.sub(r'[?|$|.|!]',r'',strs)
print nstr
nestr = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]',r'',nstr)
print nestr

你可以添加更多的特殊字符，这将被“意味着什么，即他们将被删除”所取代。