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

You can use regexp, try something like this

import re
re.findall("[0-9.]+", file(name).read())

This will give you a list of all numbers in your file as strings without any quotes.