Efficiently Strip Out Punctuation but not ".com"

Question

I found this thread: Best way to strip punctuation from a string in Python

But was hoping to come up with a way to do this except not to strip out the periods in links. So if the string is

I love using stackoverflow.com on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays!

It would return

I love using stackoverflow.com on Fridays Saturdays and Monday

In fact ideally I would be able to pass in a list of common link endings like .com, .net, .ly etc.

Answer 1

You can use negative look-aheads:

[,!?]|\.(?!(com|org|ly))