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How to Filter Text to Only Letters, Numbers, and Spaces in Python
A beginner-friendly function that filters a string to keep only alphabetic characters, digits, and spaces, removing punctuation and symbols.
def filter_text(text, keep_alpha=True, keep_digits=True, keep_spaces=True):
allowed = set()
if keep_alpha:
allowed.update("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
if keep_digits:
allowed.update("0123456789")
if keep_spaces:
allowed.add(" ")
return "".join(ch f…How to Filter Toxic Keywords in Python
Filter toxic keywords from text by replacing each occurrence with asterisks, useful as a basic guardrail for LLM inputs.
TOXIC_KEYWORDS = ["insult", "threat", "hate", "violence", "spam"]
def guardrails_filter(text: str, keywords: list[str] | None = None) -> str:
"""Filter out toxic keywords from the given text.
Args:
text: The input text to filter.
keywords: Optional keyword list. Defaults to TOXIC_KEYWORDS.
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