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

I think the easiest and most efficient thing to do would be to slice it!

From your code:

d = l[3]
returns "6.5"

so you simply add another statement:

d = d[1:-1]

now it will return 6.5 without the leading and end double quotes.

viola! :)