remove punctuations from a sentence and split the sentence into a list

# Punctuations
punctuations = '''!()-[]{};:'"\,<>./?@#$%^&*_~'''

def remove_punctuations(text):
  no_punct = ""
  for char in text:
    if char not in punctuations:
      no_punct = no_punct + char
  return no_punct

remove_punctuations("Hello!!!, he said ---and went.")