newbie question

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Mon Aug 25 10:48:49 EDT 2008


sharon k wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i am new to python.
 >
> i fetch a webpage with urllib, extract a few numbers in a format as follow;
> 
> 10,884
> 24,068
> 
> my question is how to remove the comma between the number, since i have 
> to add them up later.

Strings have a replace method. Calling replace(",", "") on the string 
will do the trick here.

-- Gerhard




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