Remove Punctuation in Python

# 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)

Output:

Hello he said and went