import re


def __remove_punctuations__(text):
    """
    Removes all punctuations in the specified text.
    It matches character(s) that is/are not word character(s)
    or spaces and replaces them with empty strings.

    :param text: the text whose punctuations to be removed
    :return: the text after removing the punctuations
    """
    return re.sub(r'[^\w\s]', '', text)