Re: quick question

[Peter Hansen]

Simon Brunning wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:58:20 -0500, Leeds, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to get rid of the beginning 
And ending quotes. 

my_string = '"8023     "'
my_string.strip('"')
'8023     '
Note the risk in this approach, as it blindly
removes any number of leading and trailing quotation marks,
not just the first and last ones.
-Peter
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