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  1. import re
  2. s="this is, a placeholder text. I wanna remove symbols like ! and ? but keep @ & # & :)"
  3. print(re.sub(r'([#@\s]|:[)(])|\W', r'\1', s))
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this is a placeholder text I wanna remove symbols like  and  but keep @  #  :)
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Python 3 (python  3.9.5)
created:
4 years ago
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