On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:58:20 -0500, Leeds, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a string variable say "8023 " and > > I want to get rid of the beginning > > And ending quotes.
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> my_string = '"8023 "' >>> my_string '"8023 "' >>> my_string.strip('"') '8023 ' -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list