[Tutor] Editing values from a dictionary

[Ben Finney]

Bob Williams <linux at 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.

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Ben Finney