Simon Brunning wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 18:58:20 -0500, Leeds, Mark <mleeds at mlp.com> wrote: >>I want to get rid of the beginning >>And ending quotes. > >>>>my_string = '"8023 "' >>>>my_string.strip('"') > '8023 ' Note the risk in this approach, as it blindly removes any number of leading and trailing quotation marks, not just the first and last ones. -Peter