Question

let’s say you have the strings

    s1 = "('element1', 'element2', 'element3')"

and

    s2 = "(1A, 2A, 3A)"

Is there a simple technique you can use to convert

    s1 to "(element1, element2, element3)"

and

    s2 to "(1, 2, 3)"

For s1, every single-quotation mark needs to disappear, and for s2 each A should disappear. What’s the most straightforward way to do this and only this?

EDIT -> everything within quotation marks is part of the whole string… there are no tuples nor any variables. Thanks!

Answer 1

I assume s1 and s2 are supposed to be the strings

s1 = "('element1', 'element2', 'element3')"
s2 = "(1A, 2A, 3A)"

To remove all single quotes from s1, you can use

s1 = s1.replace("'", "")

To remove all occurrences of the letter A from s2, use

s2 = s2.replace("A", "")

Note that strings can’t be modified in place (they are immutable) — str.replace() will return a new string.