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

IMHO, the most universal doublequote stripper is this:

In [1]: s = '1 " 1 2" 0 a "3 4 5 " 6'
In [2]: [i[0].strip() for i in csv.reader(s, delimiter=' ') if i != ['', '']]
Out[2]: ['1', '1 2', '0', 'a', '3 4 5', '6']