using python extract string from a list of string

Question

when i was reading CSV header using following code

def  read_header(gram):
    CSV_tag_read = csv.reader(open(\"Dataset/MALE_Training/\"+str(gram)+\"/\"+str(         


        

Answer 1

Using ast.literal_eval:

>>> import ast
>>> a = "('TO', 'RP', 'TO')"
>>> b = ast.literal_eval(a)
>>> b
('TO', 'RP', 'TO')
>>> b[0]
'TO'

Or

>>> [x.strip("' ") for x in a.strip('()').split(',')]
['TO', 'RP', 'TO']

UPDATED ANSWER that corresponding to updated question:

with open('/path/to/csv-file.csv') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter='"')
    header = [column.replace("'", "") for column in header]