Remove all quotations within a string

Question

I just want to remove all quotation marks from a string.
I've tried using .strip() and a for loop and that doesn't work either.
What am I doing wrong?
I know this question is similar to a few others on stack overflow, I looked at them, and they didn't give me a straight answer.

string = """Hi" how "are "you"""
string.replace('"',"")
print(string)

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 01 '20 at 03:34

5

Strings are immutable in python, string.replace can't mutate an existing string so you need to do

string = """Hi" how "are "you"""
new_string = string.replace('"',"")
print(new_string)

Or reassign the existing variable with the new value

edited Aug 01 '20 at 03:34

Trenton McKinney

answered Jul 31 '20 at 23:31

Xetera

Hashem · Answer 2 · 2020-07-31T23:47:37.417

1

There you go.

string = """Hi" how "are "you"""
string = string.replace('"','')
print(string)

or (prefer this method to get rid of unwanted characters.)

string = """Hi" how "are "you"""
for i in range(0, len(string)):
    string = string.replace('"','')
print(string)

edited Jul 31 '20 at 23:47

answered Jul 31 '20 at 23:34

Hashem

2

A single `.replace()` call will replace all replacement characters. Why call it multiple times? Additionally, you can simplify to `for _ in string`. But again, it’s not needed. – S3DEV Jul 31 '20 at 23:40
3

the repeated `.replace()` is not *required*. the string gets checked for all quotation marks and replaces with no quotes with only the first line. – FishingCode Jul 31 '20 at 23:45

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