How to get rid of all apostrophes in a string python
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October 17, 2019, at 07:10 AM
How do I get rid of all the apostrophes in this string:
text = "‘https://google.com/’"
I've tried this but it just returns the string with the first apostrophe gone and the end one stays and messes up my get request...
text = "‘https://google.com/’"
if "'" in text:
text = text.replace("'", '')
By the way, google.com is supposed to be replaced with a t.co link but stack doesn't allow it
Answer 1
You list all your apostrophes in a regular expression and remove them:
import re
text = "‘https://google.com/’"
text = re.sub(r'[’‘]', '', text)
This will remove any ’ and ‘ in the text. If you want to remove additional types of characters, just modify the regexp to include them.
Answer 2
They look the same, but not exactly the same characters. The first one is \xe2\x80\x98 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) while the second one is \xe2\x80\x99 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK).
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