Alistair King wrote:
> Is there any other way of removing double and single quotes from a
> number, as a string, to give the float value again?
help(str) describes what you can do with a string (an object of type
'str', that is). among the methods listed, you'll find:
> | strip(...)
> | S.strip([chars]) -> string or unicode
> |
> | Return a copy of the string S with leading and trailing
> | whitespace removed.
> | If chars is given and not None, remove characters in chars instead.
> | If chars is unicode, S will be converted to unicode before stripping
which looks like it should be pretty useful for this specific case:
>>> value = "'0.064250000000001084'"
>>> value
"'0.064250000000001084'"
>>> value.strip("'")
'0.064250000000001084'
>>> value.strip("'\"")
'0.064250000000001084'
>>> float(value.strip("'\""))
0.064250000000001084
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