how can I remove punctuation from a string in python

For Example

s = "AAA? BBB. CCC!"

So, I do:

import string
table = str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)
s = [w.translate(table) for w in s]

And it's all right. My new sentence will be:

s = "AAA BBB CCC"

But, if I have input sentence like:

s = "AAA? BBB. CCC! DDD.EEE"

after remove punctuation the same method as below I'll have

s = "AAA BBB CCC DDDEEE"

but need:

s = "AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE"

Is any ideas/methods how to solve this problem?

 

I think I have a solution

Code:

import string

def replace_punct(inp):
    s = ''

    for i in range(len(inp)):
        if inp[i] in string.punctuation:
            if inp[i+1] == ' ':
                s += ''
            else:
                s += ' '
        else:
            s += inp[i]
    return s

thestring = 'AAA? BBB. CCC! DDD.EEE'

print('Input: ',thestring)
print('Output: ',replace_punct(thestring))

Output:

Code:

~/Documents/Python$ python3 scratch.py 
Input:  AAA? BBB. CCC! DDD.EEE
Output:  AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE

Hope it helps!