How do you remove quotation marks form a list in python?

Question

if deliver == 1 :
    address = list(input("What is your address?"))


print("Your pizza will be delivered to", address)

When it prints it does 'p' 'p' 'o' 'p' '1' '1' when i want it to do pp op11 so it can take in real address

Answer 1

So 2 ideas here, I will show you how to fix your current problem and then I will help you see a bigger problem.

Here is how to fix your current problem.

if deliver == 1 :
    address = list(input("What is your address?"))


print("Your pizza will be delivered to", ''.join(address))

Notice the ''.join(address).

.join: tell python to concatenate each item in a list.

.join(list): list is the list that you need to concatenate.

''.join(list): '' tells .join to add nothing between each item in the list

• '-'.join(['888', '123', '4567']) would create '888-123-4567'.

How to fix the bigger problem.

You are using input() which will return a string.

You then wrapped that string in a list. When a string is turned into a list each character, including spaces are turned into list items.

Once you understand that it may help you understand what is going wrong.

Answer 2

The problem here is that the list method is taking the input string, let's say 'Address1' and converting it to ['A', 'd', 'd', 'r', 'e', 's', 's', '1'] that's why you are seeing the quotation marks.

you can do something like this:

print("Your pizza will be delivered to", input("What is your address?"))

and avoid extra processing.

Be aware that if deliver != 1 this code will raise a NameError exception, because (I don't know the rest of your code) but the address variable could not be defined.