Remove quotes from String in Python

I have a python Code that will recognize speech using the Google STT engine and give me back the results but I get the results in strings with "quotes". I don't want that quotes in my code as I will use it to run many commands and it doesn't work. I haven't tried anything so far as I didn't get anything to try! This is the function in the python code that will recognize speech:

def recog():
    p = subprocess.Popen(['./speech-recog.sh'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                            stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    global out,err
    out, err = p.communicate()
    print out

This is speech-recog.sh:

#!/bin/bash

hardware="plughw:1,0"
duration="3"
lang="en"
hw_bool=0
dur_bool=0
lang_bool=0
for var in "$@"
do
    if [ "$var" == "-D" ] ; then
        hw_bool=1
    elif [ "$var" == "-d" ] ; then
        dur_bool=1
    elif [ "$var" == "-l" ] ; then
        lang_bool=1
    elif [ $hw_bool == 1 ] ; then
        hw_bool=0
        hardware="$var"
    elif [ $dur_bool == 1 ] ; then
        dur_bool=0
        duration="$var"
    elif [ $lang_bool == 1 ] ; then
        lang_bool=0
        lang="$var"
    else
        echo "Invalid option, valid options are -D for hardware and -d for duration"
    fi
done

arecord -D $hardware -f S16_LE -t wav -d $duration -r 16000 | flac - -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o /dev/shm/out.flac 1>/dev/shm/voice.log 2>/dev/shm/voice.log; curl -X POST --data-binary @/dev/shm/out.flac --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' --header 'Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000;' "https://www.google.com/speech-api/v2/recognize?output=json&lang=$lang&key=key&client=Mozilla/5.0" | sed -e 's/[{}]/''/g' | awk -F":" '{print $4}' | awk -F"," '{print $1}' | tr -d '\n'

rm /dev/shm/out.flac

This was taken from Steven Hickson's Voicecommand Program made for Raspberry Pi

Just use string methods .replace() if they occur throughout, or .strip() if they only occur at the start and/or finish:

a = '"sajdkasjdsak" "asdasdasds"' 

a = a.replace('"', '')
'sajdkasjdsak asdasdasds'

# or, if they only occur at start and end...
a = a.strip('\"')
'sajdkasjdsak" "asdasdasds'

# or, if they only occur at start...
a = a.lstrip('\"')

# or, if they only occur at end...
a = a.rstrip('\"')

You can use eval() for this purpose

>>> url = "'http address'"
>>> eval(url)
'http address'

while eval() poses risk , i think in this context it is safe.

There are several ways this can be accomplished.

You can make use of the builtin string function .replace() to replace all occurrences of quotes in a given string:
```
>>> s = '"abcd" efgh'
>>> s.replace('"', '')
'abcd efgh'
>>> 
```
You can use the string function .join() and a generator expression to remove all quotes from a given string:
```
>>> s = '"abcd" efgh'
>>> ''.join(c for c in s if c not in '"')
'abcd efgh'
>>> 
```
You can use a regular expression to remove all quotes from given string. This has the added advantage of letting you have control over when and where a quote should be deleted:
```
>>> s = '"abcd" efgh'
>>> import re
>>> re.sub('"', '', s)
'abcd efgh'
>>> 
```

The easiest way is:

s = '"sajdkasjdsaasdasdasds"' 
import json
s = json.loads(s)

if string.startswith('"'):
    string = string[1:]

if string.endswith('"'):
    string = string[:-1]

Remove quotes from String in Python

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