Update app.py

app.py

@@ -56,8 +56,14 @@ if load_checkpoint:
     transformer = checkpoint['transformer']
 
 
-
-question = text2
+def remove_punc(string):
+    punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''
+    no_punct = ""
+    for char in string:
+        if char not in punctuations:
+            no_punct = no_punct + char  # space is also a character
+    return no_punct.lower()
+question = remove_punc(text2)
 
 max_len = 128
 enc_qus = [word_map.get(word, word_map['<unk>']) for word in question.split()]