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#  What is the `clean-text` package?

[clean-text](https://github.com/jfilter/clean-text) is a third-party package used to pre-process text data to obtain a normalized text representation.

The package can be installed via [pip](https://www.educative.io/answers/installation-uninstallation-of-packages-in-python). Check the following command to install the `clean-text` package.

```txt
pip install clean-text
```


## The `replace_punct()` method

The `replace_punct()` method replaces the punctuation in the given text with the replacement string.

## Syntax

```python
replace_punct(text, replace_with=" ")
```

## Parameters

- **`text`**: The text data.
- **`replace_with`**: The replacement string.


## Return value

The method returns the text data after replacing the punctuation.

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## Example

import cleantext

string = "hello educative - 2-3-4 - hello edpresso!!"

new_string = cleantext.replace_punct(string, replace_with=" ")

print("Original String - '" + string + "'")
print("Modified String - '" + new_string + "'")

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## Explanation

- **Line 1**:  We import the `cleantext` package.
- **Line 3**: We define a string with random punctuation.
- **Line 5**: We replace the punctuation marks in the string with whitespace using the `replace_punct()` method.
- **Lines 7–8**: We print the original and modified strings.

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How to use cleantext.replace_punct() in Python

Replace punctuation in text with a specified string using cleantext.replace_punct() from the clean-text package.

How to use cleantext.replace_punct() in Python

What is the clean-text package?

The replace_punct() method

Syntax

Parameters

Return value

Example

Explanation

What is the `clean-text` package?

The `replace_punct()` method