What is the most efficient way to strip all spaces and quotes from a string with python?

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I have a string I want to put between 2 double quotes on output "{{ var }}", so I want to make sure all single/double quotes are removed from the ends of the user-supplied string. What is the most efficient way to accomplish this?

Inputs / desired outputs:

   """""""""" string here '''''''''''''''         => 'string here'
       string'''''''""""""''''''"""""  => 'string'

Would like to see a duplicate. Everything found does not specify multiple instances of characters. — chrickso, Aug 23 '12 at 19:29

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '12 at 19:19

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Use strip with a string containing the characters you wish to strip from the ends:

s = s.strip(' "\'\t\r\n')

answered Aug 23 '12 at 19:19

Mark Byers

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 23 '12 at 19:23

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from string import whitespace
new_string = string.strip(whitespace + '"\'')

Using the strip method, with the whitespace constant to start off your list of characters to remove.

answered Aug 23 '12 at 19:23

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What is the most efficient way to strip all spaces and quotes from a string with python?

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