Can Python remove double quotes from a string, when reading in text file?

Question

I have some text file like this, with several 5000 lines:

5.6  4.5  6.8  \"6.5\" (new line)
5.4  8.3  1.2  \"9.3\" (new line)

so the last t

Answer 1

for line in open(name, "r"):
    line = line.replace('"', '').strip()
    a, b, c, d = map(float, line.split())

This is kind of bare-bones, and will raise exceptions if (for example) there aren't four values on the line, etc.