How to remove punctuation in python but leave some characters?

Question

Python

Hello.
How to remove punctuation in python, but leave some characters in a string?
The line, for example, is like this - "blah. ! blah (beeep?) heap :) :) :)
I remove characters like this print re.sub(r'[^\w\s]', '', text),
but how should I leave emoji at the end?

Answer 1

you want to remove non-alphabetic characters and leave non-alphabetic characters...
this is not done with one expression
or solve the problem in a direct pass in three stages
1) clearing non-unicode (you may not need a stage) 2
) clearing unnecessary
characters
three steps
1) replace emoticons with sequences
2) cleanup
3) replace sequences with emoticons
in three steps faster

Answer 2

look here for such a combination x(?!y) as well as an operator like |