How to make string when a sentence has quotation marks or inverted commas? Python

Question

For example I have a sentence such as:

Jamie's car broke "down" in the middle of the street

How can I convert this into a string without manually removing the quotation marks and inverted commas like:

'Jamies car broke down in the middle of the street' 

Any help is appreciated! Thanks,

Answer 1

Use replace() one after other:

s = """Jamie's car broke "down" in the middle of the street"""

print(s.replace('\'', '').replace('"', ''))
# Jamies car broke down in the middle of the street

Answer 2

You may use regex to remove all special characters from string as:

>>> import re
>>> my_str = """Jamie's car broke "down" in the middle of the street"""

>>> re.sub('[^A-Za-z0-9\s]+', '', my_str)
'Jamies car broke down in the middle of the street'

Answer 3

Try this:

oldstr = """Jamie's car broke "down" in the middle of the street""" #Your problem string
newstr = oldstr.replace('\'', '').replace('"', '')) #New string using replace()
print(newstr) #print result

This returns:

Jamies car broke down in the middle of the street