How to remove leading and trailing zeros in a string? Python

Question

I have several alphanumeric strings like these

listOfNum = [\'000231512-n\',\'1209123100000-n00000\',\'alphanumeric0000\', \'000alphanumeric\']

Answer 1

You can simply do this with a bool:

if int(number) == float(number):

   number = int(number)

else:

   number = float(number)