Re: Question on List processing

From	Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Question on List processing
Date	2016-04-26 11:49 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016, at 11:38, subhabangalore@gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to send you a revised example.
> list1=[u"('koteeswaram/BHPERSN engaged/NA ','class1')",
> u"('koteeswaram/BHPERSN is/NA ','class1')"] 
> 
> [('koteeswaram/BHPERSN engaged/NA ','class1'),
>  ('koteeswaram/BHPERSN is/NA  ','class1')]
> 
> I tried to make it as follows,
> list2=[]
> for i in list1:
>         a1=unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', i).encode('ascii','ignore')
>         a2=a1.replace('"',"")
>         list2.append(a2)

I think you're still a bit confused. The values don't actually contain
'"' (or 'u'), that's just an indicator that they're strings. You can't
turn a string into something else just by removing the quotes. Look at
the ast.literal_eval function as others have recommended.

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Question on List processing subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2016-04-25 07:56 -0700
  Re: Question on List processing Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-26 02:36 +1000
    Re: Question on List processing subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2016-04-26 08:38 -0700
      Re: Question on List processing Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-26 11:49 -0400
      Re: Question on List processing Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-27 02:29 +1000
    Re: Question on List processing subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2016-04-26 08:44 -0700
  Re: Question on List processing Matt Wheeler <m@funkyhat.org> - 2016-04-25 20:31 +0000

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