Remove quotes from String in Python

Question

I have a python Code that will recognize speech using the Google STT engine and give me back the results but I get the results in strings with "quotes". I don't want that quotes in my code as I will use it to run many commands and it doesn't work. I haven't tried anything so far as I didn't get anything to try! This is the function in the python code that will recognize speech:

def recog():     p = subprocess.Popen(['./speech-recog.sh'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,                                             stderr=subprocess.PIPE)     global out,err     out, err = p.communicate()     print out 

This is speech-recog.sh:

#!/bin/bash  hardware="plughw:1,0" duration="3" lang="en" hw_bool=0 dur_bool=0 lang_bool=0 for var in "$@" do     if [ "$var" == "-D" ] ; then         hw_bool=1     elif [ "$var" == "-d" ] ; then         dur_bool=1     elif [ "$var" == "-l" ] ; then         lang_bool=1     elif [ $hw_bool == 1 ] ; then         hw_bool=0         hardware="$var"     elif [ $dur_bool == 1 ] ; then         dur_bool=0         duration="$var"     elif [ $lang_bool == 1 ] ; then         lang_bool=0         lang="$var"     else         echo "Invalid option, valid options are -D for hardware and -d for duration"     fi done  arecord -D $hardware -f S16_LE -t wav -d $duration -r 16000 | flac - -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o /dev/shm/out.flac 1>/dev/shm/voice.log 2>/dev/shm/voice.log; curl -X POST --data-binary @/dev/shm/out.flac --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' --header 'Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000;' "https://www.google.com/speech-api/v2/recognize?output=json&lang=$lang&key=key&client=Mozilla/5.0" | sed -e 's/[{}]/''/g' | awk -F":" '{print $4}' | awk -F"," '{print $1}' | tr -d '\n'  rm /dev/shm/out.flac 

This was taken from Steven Hickson's Voicecommand Program made for Raspberry Pi

Answer 1

Just use string methods .replace() if they occur throughout, or .strip() if they only occur at the start and/or finish:

a = '"sajdkasjdsak" "asdasdasds"'   a = a.replace('"', '') 'sajdkasjdsak asdasdasds'  # or, if they only occur at start and end... a = a.strip('\"') 'sajdkasjdsak" "asdasdasds'  # or, if they only occur at start... a = a.lstrip('\"')  # or, if they only occur at end... a = a.rstrip('\"') 

Answer 2

You can use eval() for this purpose

>>> url = "'http address'" >>> eval(url) 'http address' 

while eval() poses risk , i think in this context it is safe.