[Tutor] How to strip both single and double quotes

[Mark Thomas]

On 10/5/05, Dick Moores <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote:
> The text will contain "words" beginning or ending with non-alphabetic
> characters. To strip them off I use string.strip([chars]). My question is
> how to use strip just once to get rid of both kinds of quotes, single and
> double. It seems necessary to do it something like this:

Not sure what you mean by 'words' but how about something like this.
[x.strip('\' \" () * & ^ % $ # < ') for x in word.split()]

Example:
>>> str = 'this has special characters \" \' ()*&^%$# << '
>>> [x.strip('\' \" () * & ^ % $ # < ') for x in str.split()]
['this', 'has', 'special', 'characters', '', '', '', '']

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