Removing all commas from list in Python

Question

My issue: I\'d like to add all the digits in this string \'1.14,2.14,3.14,4.14\' but the commas are causing my sum function to not work correctly.
I figured

Answer 1

You don't want strip, you want split.

The split function will separate your string into an array, using the separator character you pass to it, in your case split(',').