Remove all special characters, punctuation except spaces from string - Python

In this tutorial I will show you how to remove all special characters, punctuation except spaces from string in Python.

The following program is to extract data from a URL using beautifulsoup package. If the title tag contain special characters then I want to remove it. 

CODE:

import string

from docx import Document

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import urllib.request



def remove_symbols(title):

    trans = str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation)

    cleaned_title = title.translate(trans)

    return cleaned_title



hdr = {"User-Agent": "My Agent"}



request = urllib.request.Request(url = 'https://tensix.com/oracle-bi-publisher-installation-error-inst-05058-a-lookup-of-the-address-for-this-machine/',

                                 headers=hdr)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(request)

myfile = f.read()



soup = BeautifulSoup(myfile, 'html.parser')

title = soup.title.text.strip()

doc = Document()

doc.add_heading(title, 1) 

cleaned_title = remove_symbols(title)



print(cleaned_title)

But above code not removing full stops & numbers. I m going to use Regx to remove unwanted Characters.

def remove_symbols(title):

  for k in title.split("\n"):

    return re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9]+", ' ', k)