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

Did you try with strip() :

listOfNum = ['231512-n','1209123100000-n00000','alphanumeric0000', 'alphanumeric']
print [item.strip('0') for item in listOfNum]

>>> ['231512-n', '1209123100000-n', 'alphanumeric', 'alphanumeric']