On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, 02:20 Ganesh Pal, <[email protected]> wrote: > The possible value of stat['server2'] can be either (a) > "'/fileno_100.txt'" or (b) '/fileno_100.txt' . > > How do I check if it the value was (a) i.e string started and ended > with a quote , so that I can use ast.literal_eval() >
BAFP
>
def maybe_unquote(string):
try:
return ast.literal_eval(string)
except ValueError:
return string
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