quick question

[Simon Brunning]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:58:20 -0500, Leeds, Mark <mleeds at mlp.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a string variable say "8023     " and 
> 
> I want to get rid of the beginning 
> 
> And ending quotes. 

Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> my_string = '"8023     "'
>>> my_string
'"8023     "'
>>> my_string.strip('"')
'8023     '

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Simon B,
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