Bob Williams <li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> writes: > In [3]: print metadata["artist"] > [u'The Incredible String Band'] > > I now want to pass that string to another program, but I want to strip > off the leading [u' and the trailing '].
You may be assuming that ‘metadata["artist"]’ is a text string; I suspect it is not. Try ‘type(metadata["artist"])’, to get Python to tell you what the type of that object is. -- \ “Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some | `\ other field.” —Erik Naggum, in _gnu.misc.discuss_ | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
