How to remove square brackets and '' from string?

Question

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import pandas as pd
import time

headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36'}

r = requests.get('https://www.hltv.org/stats/teams/7969/Nemiga?startDate=2019-01-01&endDate=2019-12-31')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'html.parser')
results = soup.find_all('div',{'class':'columns'})
results2 = soup.find_all('div',{'class':'large-strong'})

first_round = []
for result in results2:
    KDratio = result.contents

Output is ['1.04'].. is there a way I can get just 1.04 as the output?

Thanks

Answer 1

.contents is a list containing all children. That's not what you want. You want the simple text content of the tag, for which you should use .string .

Answer 2

Assuming your output is out = "['1.04']" you have (at least) two options.

1. String Operation

out = "['1.04']"
num = float(out.strip("[']"))  # 1.04

2. String Parsing

import ast

out = "['1.04']"
num = float(ast.literal_eval(out)[0])  # 1.04