string.punctuation in Python

In Python3, string.punctuation is a pre-initialized string used as string constant. In Python, string.punctuation will give the all sets of punctuation.

Syntax : string.punctuation

Parameters : Doesn’t take any parameter, since it’s not a function.

Returns : Return all sets of punctuation.

Note : Make sure to import string library function inorder to use string.punctuation

Code #1 :

# import string library function
import string

# Storing the sets of punctuation in variable result
result = string.punctuation

# Printing the punctuation values
print(result)

Output :

!"#$%&'()*+, -./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~

Code #2 : Given code tests for punctuation.

# import string library function
import string

# An input string.
Sentence = "Hey, Geeks !, How are you?"

for i in Sentence:

    # checking whether the char is punctuation.
    if i in string.punctuation:

        # Printing the punctuation values
        print("Punctuation: " + i)

Output:

Punctuation:,
Punctuation: !
Punctuation:,
Punctuation: ?