[Tutor] Editing values from a dictionary

[Bob Williams]

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On 26/02/14 17:29, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.
> 
Aha! Sounds of pennies dropping ;-)

In [7]: type(metadata["artist"])
Out[7]: list

In [12]: print metadata["artist"][0]
The Incredible String Band

Gets me what I want. Thank you.

Bob
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