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(fname):
    line = line.split()
    line[-1] = line[-1].strip('"\n')
    floats = [float(i) for i in line]

another option is to use built-in module, that is intended for this task. namely csv:

>>> import csv
>>> for line in csv.reader(open(fname), delimiter=' '):
    print([float(i) for i in line])

[5.6, 4.5, 6.8, 6.5]
[5.6, 4.5, 6.8, 6.5]