CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user290043
user290043

Reputation:

How to remove curly quotes?

In my utf-8 encoded file, there are curly quotes (“”).

How do I replace them all with normal quotes (")?

cell_info.replace('“','"')
cell_info.replace('”','"')

did not work. No error message.

Thank you. :)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11375

Answers (3)

elin3t
elin3t

Reputation: 1911

other way that work with my code is this:

cell_info = cell_info.replace(u'\u201c', '"').replace(u'\u201d', '"')

this because i already have this # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top of my script

Upvotes: 6

Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 12580

cell_info = cell_info.replace('“','"').replace('”','"')

The replace method return a new string with the replacement done. It doesn't act directly on the string.

Upvotes: 1

NullUserException
NullUserException

Reputation: 85458

str.replace() doesn't replace the original string, it just returns a new one.

Do:

cell_info = cell_info.replace('“','"').replace('”','"')

Upvotes: 13

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