Remove a big list of of special characters : <p>I want to remove each of the following special characters from my documents: </p>

<pre><code>symbols = {`,~,!,@,#,$,%,^,&amp;,*,(,),_,-,+,=,{,[,],},|,\,:,;,",&lt;,,,&gt;,.,?,/}
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<p>The reason why I am not simply doing something like this:</p>

<pre><code>document = re.sub(r'([^\s\w]|_)+', '', document)
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<p>is that in this way I remove also many (accented/special) letters in the case of documents written in languages such as Polish etc.</p>

<p>How can I remove each of the special characters above in one expression?</p>
