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remove inverted commas from python string

I have a very annoying string formatting issue. I tried different approaches but i seem to be lost. This is my expected output: ["aa","b","c","dd"].

Sample code:

mylist = ['b','c']
mylisttmp = ','.join('"{0}"'.format(x) for x in mylist)
finalstr='"aa"' +","+"{}".format(mylisttmp) +","+'"dd"'
print([finalstr])

OUTPUT:['"aa","b","c","dd"']   #How to get rid of the end quotes,which is causing issues?

I did a lot of string splitting, joining etc but I am going round and round the same issue. I intended to use the formatted output with a tkinter property, as follows:

myComboBox['values']= ["aa","b","c","dd"]

Please direct me. Thank you

Solution

  • You don't actually want a string at all. You want a list that contains four strings.

    mylist = ['b','c']
finalset = ["aa"] + mylist + ["dd"]
print(finalset)

    Output

    >>> print(finalset)
['aa', 'b', 'c', 'dd']
>>>