On 2020-08-11 20:43, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:17:39 -0400, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldst...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
[snip]
Warning -- it will fail if the input is just a pair of quotes or pair of
apostrophes -- improvement is
while s and s[0] in ['"', "'"]:
... if s[0] == s[-1]:
... s = s[1:-1]
If the 'if' condition is False, then 's' will remain unchanged, and it
will loop forever.
I would suggest:
>>> while s[ : 1] in {'"', "'"} and s[ : 1] == s[-1 : ]:
... s = s[1 : -1]
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