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  1. import re
  2. words = ["That's", 'a-', 'tasty', 'tic-tac.','Or', '-not?']
  3. rx = re.compile(r"\b([-'])\b|[\W_]")
  4. print( [rx.sub(r'\1', x) for x in words] )
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9576KB
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Standard input is empty
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["That's", 'a', 'tasty', 'tic-tac', 'Or', 'not']
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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