How to get rid of double instances of quotations around a string?

Question

I was wondering how you could convert the following list such that the strings contained in the list are properly formatted.

["'34872'", "'Johnathan'", "'Bonzo'", "'100'"]

Ideal output:

["34872", "Johnathan", "Bonzo", "100"]

Answer 1

You can use ast.literal_eval in a list comprehension

>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> data = ["'34872'", "'Johnathan'", "'Bonzo'", "'100'"]
>>> [literal_eval(i) for i in data]
['34872', 'Johnathan', 'Bonzo', '100']

Otherwise you can use simple string replacement

>>> [i.replace("'", "") for i in data]
['34872', 'Johnathan', 'Bonzo', '100']