Convert the decimal numbers expressed in a `numpy.ndarray` into a matrix representing elements in fractional form

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On 2022-05-17 16:21, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2022-05-16 20:48:02 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 17:22:17 -0700 (PDT), "hongy... at gmail.com"
>> <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>> >a=re.sub(r"'","",a)
>> 
>> 	Explain what you believe this operation is doing, show us the input and
>> the output.
>> 
>> 	The best I can make out of that is that it is looking for single quote
>> characters within whatever "a" is, and replacing them with nothing.
>> Something much more understandable, without invoking a regular expression
>> library (especially when neither the search nor the replacement terms are
>> regular expressions) with simple string operations...
>> 
>> 	stripped = "".join(quoted.split("'"))
> 
> Whether that's easier to understand it very much in the eye of the
> beholder.
> 
As it's just a simple replacement, I would've thought that the 'obvious' 
solution would be:
     a = a.replace("'", "")