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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list