Can Python remove double quotes from a string, when reading in text file?

Question

I have some text file like this, with several 5000 lines:

5.6  4.5  6.8  \"6.5\" (new line)
5.4  8.3  1.2  \"9.3\" (new line)

so the last t

Answer 1

There's a module you can use from the standard library called shlex:

>>> import shlex
>>> print shlex.split('5.6  4.5  6.8  "6.5"')
['5.6', '4.5', '6.8', '6.5']