removing characters before writing to file

[Stefan Neumann]

eight02645999 at yahoo.com wrote:
> hi
> i have some output that returns a lines of tuples eg
>
> ('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P ')
> ('sometext2', 1421248338, 2, 'S ')
> and so on
> ....
>

If the braces are always at the begining and at the end of the string,
you could also use:

	>>> "('sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P ')"[1:-1]
	"'sometext1', 1421248118, 1, 'P '"

cheers
	Stefan
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