Python: How to remove [' and ']?

Question

I want to remove [\' from start and \'] characters from the end of a string.

This is my text:

\"[\'45453656565\']\"
         


        

Answer 1

Instead of hacking your data by stripping brackets, you should edit the script that created it to print out just the numbers. E.g., instead of lazily doing

output.write(str(mylist))

you can write

for elt in mylist:
    output.write(elt + "\n")

Then when you read your data back in, it'll contain the numbers (as strings) without any quotes, commas or brackets.