On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, Ganesh Pal wrote:
>The possible value of stat['server2'] can be either (a)
>"'/fileno_100.txt'" or (b) '/fileno_100.txt' .
def stripquotes(s):
'''Strip leading single or double quotes to any depth'''
import re
pat = re.compile(r'^([\'"])(.*)(\1)$')
slast = None
while slast != s:
slast = s
s = pat.cub(r'\2', s)
return s
# end stripquotes(s)
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