Removing a character from a string in Python using strip() -

i have 2 strings.

dat: "13/08/08 tim: 12:05:51+22" 

i want " character stripped both strings. here code using:

dat=dat.strip('"') tim=tim.strip('"') 

the resulting strings are:

dat: 13/08/08 tim: 12:05:51+22" 

why " character not removed tim?

according documentation here (http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_strip.htm) should work.

according docs, strip([chars]):

return copy of string leading , trailing characters removed. chars argument string specifying set of characters removed.

so, " won't replaced dat: "13/08/08 , replaced tim: 12:05:51+22" because here " @ end:

>>> dat = 'dat: "13/08/08' >>> tim = 'tim: 12:05:51+22"' >>> dat.strip('"') 'dat: "13/08/08' >>> tim.strip('"') 'tim: 12:05:51+22' 

use replace() instead:

>>> dat.replace('"', '') 'dat: 13/08/08' >>> tim.replace('"', '') 'tim: 12:05:51+22'