src/utils.py

import re

emoji_pattern = re.compile(
    "["
    u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons
    u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # symbols & pictographs
    u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols
    u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF"  # flags (iOS)
    u"\U00002702-\U000027B0"
    u"\U000024C2-\U0001F251"
    "]+",
    flags=re.UNICODE,
)


def clean_text(x):
    x = x.lower()  # lowercase
    x = x.encode("ascii", "ignore").decode()  # unicode
    x = re.sub(r"https*\S+", " ", x)  # url
    x = re.sub(r"@\S+", " ", x)  # mentions
    x = re.sub(r"#\S+", " ", x)  # hastags
    x = x.replace("'", "")  # remove ticks
    # x = re.sub("[%s]" % re.escape(string.punctuation), " ", x)  # punctuation
    # x = re.sub(r"\w*\d+\w*", "", x)  # numbers
    x = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", x)  # over spaces
    x = emoji_pattern.sub(r"", x)  # emojis
    x = re.sub("[^A-Za-z0-9]+", " ", x)  # special charachters

    return x