Python: How to remove [' and ']?

Question

I want to remove [\' from start and \'] characters from the end of a string.

This is my text:

\"[\'45453656565\']\"
         


        

Answer 1

You need to strip your text by passing the unwanted characters to str.strip() method:

>>> s = "['45453656565']"
>>> 
>>> s.strip("[']")
'45453656565'

Or if you want to convert it to integer you can simply pass the striped result to int function:

>>> try:
...     val = int(s.strip("[']"))
... except ValueError:
...     print("Invalid string")
... 
>>> val
45453656565