Python: Strip everything but spaces and alphanumeric

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Published on 2010-05-06T08:04:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 8:08 UTC
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I have a large string with brackets and commas and such. I want to strip all those characters but keep the spacing. How can I do this. As of now I am using

strippedList = re.sub(r'\W+', '', origList)

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