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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
```

# 
#  `replace_numbers()` method

The **`replace_numbers()` method** is used to replace all the numbers in the given text with the replacement string.

## Method signature

```python
replace_numbers(text, replace_with="<NUMBER>")
```

## Parameters

- `text`: This is the text data whose numbers we want to replace with the replacement string. 
- `replace_with`: This is the replacement string we are replacing the numbers with.


## Return value

This method returns the text data where all the numbers are replaced with the string.

##
## Code

import cleantext

string = """hello educative - 234123 - hello edpresso"""

new_string = cleantext.replace_numbers(string, replace_with="number_was_here")

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

cleantext

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## Code explanation

- __Line 1:__ We import the `cleantext` package.
- __Line 3:__ We define a string with numbers in it.
- __Line 5:__ We replace the numbers in the string with `number_was_here` using the `replace_numbers()` method.
- __Lines 7-8:__ We print the original and the modified strings.

What is replace_numbers() method of clean-text package in Python?

What is the clean-text package?

replace_numbers() method

Method signature

Parameters

Return value

Code

Code explanation

What is the `clean-text` package?

`replace_numbers()` method