string.translate() does not accept 2 args

Question

I have looked at several answers on Best way to strip punctuation from a string in Python but none of these seem to address my problem. I am trying to strip punctuation from a string using string.translate().

When I run the code:

import string
s = "This. has? punctuation," 
noPunct = s.translate(s.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)

I get:

TypeError: translate() takes exactly one argument (2 given)

Is this perhaps an issue with the python version I am using? I am using python 3.5.4 for compatibility with nltk. Otherwise I am stumped. Any help would be appreciated.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 03:50

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You're using Python 2.x code, but running Python 3.x. Scroll down on the linked question to see how to do it in Python 3.x:

s.translate(mapping)

answered Nov 08 '17 at 03:50

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wim · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-08T05:28:01.507

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The Python 3 interface for str.translate uses a mapping. Make one with str.maketrans:

>>> import string
>>> table = str.maketrans({}.fromkeys(string.punctuation))
>>> "This. has? punctuation,".translate(table)
'This has punctuation'

edited Nov 08 '17 at 05:28

answered Nov 08 '17 at 03:50

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '17 at 03:56

Different function signatures between Python 2 and Python 3.

string.translate() does not accept 2 args

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