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string.punctuation gives me '!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~',
but that's not sufficient for other languages like French or German. What I can I do with other languages?

You could make a unicode_punctuation.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6098...just-ascii

import sys
from unicodedata import category


punctuation_chars =  [
    chr(i) for i in range(sys.maxunicode)
    if category(chr(i)).startswith("P")
    ]

If you have to work with foreign languages, look for gettext and babel. The programmer does i18n (internationalization) and the translators are doing the l10n (localization).