[brianmen]

Hi everyone... I'm trying to make a function that will remove quotes from a string so that that sting can become a dictionary key that I can call on later. I've tried a few methods to remove the quotes, but it does not seem to work. If you run this code, you'll see what I mean... Oh and I do mean to leave that uppercase part in the function.

def cellparser(cell):
    cell=(cell.rstrip('\n'))
    for character in cell:
        if (character=='\"'):
            character=""
        if (character=="\'"):
            character=""
    for character in cell:
        if (character=="\'") or (character=='\"'):
            character=""
    cell=cell.upper()
    cell=cell.rstrip('\"')
    cell=cell.rstrip("\'")
    return cell



string=' "HELLO /" regarding those \' and \" \' quotes. They are annoying." '
print "string before modification is"
print string

print "string parsed immediately"
print cellparser(string)

print "string redefined"
string=cellparser(string)
print string

My output is still showing quotes in the center where I put those slashes....

[Motoma]

Hello there.

What you are looking for is the replace() method:

string = string.replace('"', '')
string = string.replace("'", "")

or more concisely:

string = string.replace('"', '').replace("'", '')

Additionally, dictionaries can have quotes in keys!

>>> d['"'] = 'a'
>>> d
{'"': 'a'}

This post has been edited by Motoma: 01 July 2010 - 10:59 AM