How can I preprocess NLP text (lowercase, remove special characters, remove numbers, remove emails, etc) in one pass?

The following function performs all things you have mentioned.

import nltk
from nltk.tokenize import RegexpTokenizer
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer,PorterStemmer
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
import re
lemmatizer = WordNetLemmatizer()
stemmer = PorterStemmer() 

 def preprocess(sentence):
    sentence=str(sentence)
    sentence = sentence.lower()
    sentence=sentence.replace('{html}',"") 
    cleanr = re.compile('<.*?>')
    cleantext = re.sub(cleanr, '', sentence)
    rem_url=re.sub(r'http\S+', '',cleantext)
    rem_num = re.sub('[0-9]+', '', rem_url)
    tokenizer = RegexpTokenizer(r'\w+')
    tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(rem_num)  
    filtered_words = [w for w in tokens if len(w) > 2 if not w in stopwords.words('english')]
    stem_words=[stemmer.stem(w) for w in filtered_words]
    lemma_words=[lemmatizer.lemmatize(w) for w in stem_words]
    return " ".join(filtered_words)


df['cleanText']=df['Text'].map(lambda s:preprocess(s)) 

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