On 11Aug2020 00:05, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1...@gmail.com> wrote: >How to remove " from the starting and ending of a string , before >comparison . Here is an example and my solution wtih eval ( I am advised >not to use this one) , please suggest an alternative . I am on linux and >python 2.7
Indeed. Using eval is extremely dangerous - it can execute _any_ python code at all. Do not do that. I would look for the quote character (you say " above but all your examples actually use the ' character) at the start and end with .startswith and .endswith methods, and cut out the middle with a slice if they are both your target quote character (don't forget that Python supports negative indices, making this pretty easy). But I suspect that in the real world you'll find this approach simplistic. Normally quotes introduce a special syntax between them, such a \n to indicate a newline character and so forth, so _only_ stripping the quotes is not al that would be required. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
