added preprocesors

alpha_main.py

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
         'chatterbot.preprocessors.clean_whitespace', #cleans any wrong spacing with regex
         'chatterbot.preprocessors.unescape_html',   #Convert escaped html characters into unescaped html characters
         'chatterbot.preprocessors.convert_to_ascii',
-        'preprocessors.clean_words.clean_words'
+        'preprocessors.clean_words.clean_words',
+        'preprocessors,clean_puncuations,clean_puncuations'
     ]
 )
 

preprocessors/clean_punctuations.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import py_compile
+import re
+puncuations=[
+    "`",
+    "~",
+    "!",
+    "#",
+    "$",
+    "%",
+    "^",
+    "&",
+    "*",
+    "(",
+    ")",
+    "-",
+    "+",
+    "?",
+    ".",
+    ","
+
+]
+
+def clean_punctuations(statement):
+    print(statement)
+    for x in puncuations:
+        if x in statement.text:
+            statement.text=statement.text.replace(x,"")
+        else:
+            continue
+    return statement

preprocessors/clean_words.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import re
 #this file imports the regex and cleans any extra words that is preventing the processing of this program
 
 #this is the list of the words that will be removed during processing