Python Remove Comma In Dollar Amount

Question

Using Python v2, I have the user entering an amount into a string as below:

RawPurchaseAmount = raw_input(\"Please enter purchase amount: \")

PurchaseAmount         


        

Answer 1

Update StephenPaulger's answer is better.

Original Answer

If you don't mind regular expressions you can also replace both $ and , in one go. Something like this:

>>> import re
>>> RawPurchaseAmount
'$10,000'
>>> re.sub('[\$,]', '', RawPurchaseAmount)
'10000'
>>> 

Remember to compile the regular expression if you plan to do this many times in the same program.