clean_description

import string

def clean_descriptions(descriptions):
	# prepare translation table for removing punctuation
	table = str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation)
	for key, desc_list in descriptions.items():
		for i in range(len(desc_list)):
			desc = desc_list[i]
			# tokenize
			desc = desc.split()
			# convert to lower case
			desc = [word.lower() for word in desc]
			# remove punctuation from each token
			desc = [w.translate(table) for w in desc]
			# remove hanging 's' and 'a'
			desc = [word for word in desc if len(word)>1]
			# remove tokens with numbers in them
			desc = [word for word in desc if word.isalpha()]
			# store as string
			desc_list[i] =  ' '.join(desc)

# clean descriptions
clean_descriptions(descriptions)