In Python interpreter, return without " ' "
In the Python interactive prompt, if you return a string, it will be displayed with quotes around it, mainly so that you know it's a string.
If you just print the string, it will not be shown with quotes (unless the string has quotes in it).
>>> 1 # just a number, so no quotes1>>> "hi" # just a string, displayed with quotes'hi'>>> print("hi") # being *printed* to the screen, so do not show quoteshi>>> "'hello'" # string with embedded single quotes"'hello'">>> print("'hello'") # *printing* a string with embedded single quotes'hello'If you actually do need to remove leading/trailing quotation marks, use the .strip method of the string to remove single and/or double quotes:
>>> print("""'"hello"'""")'"hello"'>>> print("""'"hello"'""".strip('"\''))hello
Here's one way that will remove all the single quotes in a string.
def remove(x): return x.replace("'", "")Here's another alternative that will remove the first and last character.
def remove2(x): return x[1:-1]