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+# define punctuation
+punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''
+
+my_str = "Hello!!!, he said ---and went."
+
+# To take input from the user
+# my_str = input("Enter a string: ")
+
+# remove punctuation from the string
+no_punct = ""
+for char in my_str:
+   if char not in punctuations:
+       no_punct = no_punct + char
+
+# display the unpunctuated string
+print(no_punct)