python pandas remove punctuation

1x = pd.DataFrame(dict(column1=["Lorum. ipsum.?"]))
2x["column1"] = x["column1"].str.replace('[^\w\s]','')

1# Define the function to remove the punctuation
2def remove_punctuations(text):
3    for punctuation in string.punctuation:
4        text = text.replace(punctuation, '')
5    return text
6# Apply to the DF series
7df['new_column'] = df['column'].apply(remove_punctuations)