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Hi sharon,

as I understand, you want to remove certain characters of a string. Try:

number = int(fetched_number.replace(',', ''))

this will first remove any , characters and then convert the string into an integer.

Best,
Manuel

On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:15 PM, sharon k wrote:

hi all,

i am new to python.

i fetch a webpage with urllib, extract a few numbers in a format as follow;

10,884
24,068

my question is how to remove the comma between the number, since i have to add them up later.

sorry for my bad english.
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