On 2020-08-10 19:35, Ganesh Pal 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
g1@X1:/tmp$ cat file2.py
#!/usr/bin/python
# Case 1 - server2 file is "'/fileno_100.txt'"
stat={}
stat['server1'] = '/fileno_100.txt'
stat['server2'] = "'/fileno_100.txt'"
if stat['server1'] == eval(stat['server2']):
print "OK"
# Case 2 - server2 file is '/fileno_100.txt'
stat['server2'] = "'/fileno_100.txt'"
if stat['server1'] == eval(stat['server2']):
print "OK"
# Case 3 - server2 file can be in (a) '/fileno_100.txt' or (b) :
"'/fileno_100.txt'" format
g1@X1:/tmp$ python file2.py
OK
OK
You could strip off the quotes with the .strip method or use
literal_eval from the ast module.
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