newbie question

[Manuel Ebert]

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Hi sharon,

as I understand, you want to remove certain characters of a string. Try:

number = int(fetched_number.replace(',', ''))

this will first remove any , characters and then convert the string  
into an integer.

Best,
Manuel

On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:15 PM, 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.
>
> sorry for my bad english.
> --
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