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