code: def remove_non_word_characters(col: Column) -> Column:
      r"""Removes non-word characters from a column.
  
      The non-word characters which will be removed are those identified by the
      regular expression ``"[^\\w\\s]+"``.  This expression represents any character
      that is not a word character (e.g. `\\w`) or whitespace (`\\s`).
  
      :param col: A Column object.
      :return: A Column object with non-word characters removed.
  
      """
      return F.regexp_replace(col, "[^\\w\\s]+", "")
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
  import re
  import uuid
  from typing import Any
  import pyspark.sql.functions
  from pyspark.sql.types import ArrayType, BooleanType, StringType
label_desc: Use image node_id 4 for calling a global function with example usage: remove_non_word_characters(col) and returns: F