Re: newbie question

[Manuel Ebert]

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Hi sharon,

as I understand, you want to remove certain characters of a string. Try:

number = int(fetched_num ber.replace(',' , ''))

this will first remove any , characters and then convert the string
into an integer.

Best,
Manuel

On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:15 PM, sharon k wrote:

hi all,
>
i am new to python.
>
i fetch a webpage with urllib, extract a few numbers in a format as
follow;
>
10,884
24,068
>
my question is how to remove the comma between the number, since i
have to add them up later.
>
sorry for my bad english.
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