#removes punctuation from provided string
#but preserves punctuation between digits (I am allowing ALL punctuation)
def remove_punctuation(string):
    results = ""
    previous = ""
    next = ""
    for i, c in enumerate(string):
        if (i > 0):
            previous = string[i - 1]
        if (i + 1 != len(string)):
            next = string[i + 1]
        if (not previous.isdigit() or not next.isdigit()):  # if the previous and the next one are not digits
            if (c not in punctuation_list):
                results += c
        else:
            results += c
    return results

#open_document()
punctuation_list = ['\\','/',':',',','...','(',')','.','?','!','\"',';','\'','–','’']
string = "major role — international and — international long-lived—many users’ consumer’s 2004/8ec"

print(remove_punctuation(string))