code: def strip_mentions_links(self, text):
          
          #print 'Before:', text
          new_text = [word for word in text.split() if not self.is_mention_line(word)]
          #print 'After:', u' '.join(new_text)
          return u' '.join(new_text)
docs: Strips Mentions and Links
  
              :param text: Text to be stripped from.