>>> from string import punctuation
>>> from re import sub
>>>
>>> string = "Fred-Daniels!"
>>> translator = str.maketrans('','', sub('-', '', punctuation))
>>> string
'Fred-Daniels!'
>>> string = string.translate(translator)
>>> string
'Fred-Daniels'
>>> name = ' est-1.'
>>> valid_characters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890- '
>>> filtered_name = ''.join([ x for x in name if x.lower() in valid_characters ])
>>> print(filtered_name)
test-1