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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def sanitize_word(s):
 """Remove non-alphanumerical characters from metric word. And trim excessive underscores. """

    s = re.sub('[^\w-]+', '_', s)
    s = re.sub('__+', '_', s)
    return s.strip('_')