How can i get rid of the quotes in the output. I have tried to used .strip('') but the output does not seem to change.
from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = urlopen('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIFTY_50')
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
niftylist_raw = soup.find('table', {'class': 'wikitable sortable'})
nifty_symbol =[]
for row in niftylist_raw.findAll('tr')[1:]:
nifty_symbols = row.findAll('td')[1].text
nifty_symbol.append(nifty_symbols.strip(''))
print(nifty_symbol)
The current output looks like this:
[‘ADANIPORTS.NSn’, ‘ASIANPAINT.NS’, ‘AXISBANK.NS’, ‘BAJAJ-AUTO.NS’, ‘BAJFINANCE.NS’, ‘BAJAJFINSV.NS’, ‘BHARTIARTL.NS’, ‘INFRATEL.NS’, ‘BPCL.NS’, ‘CIPLA.NS’, ‘COALINDIA.NS’, ‘DRREDDY.NS’, ‘EICHERMOT.NS’, ‘GAIL.NS’, ‘GRASIM.NS’, ‘HCLTECH.NS’, ‘HDFC.NS’, ‘HDFCBANK.NS’, ‘HEROMOTOCO.NS’, ‘HINDALCO.NS’, ‘HINDUNILVR.NS’, ‘BRITANNIA.NS’, ‘ICICIBANK.NS’, ‘INDUSINDBK.NS’, ‘INFY.NS’, ‘IOC.NS’, ‘ITC.NS’, ‘JSWSTEEL.NS’, ‘KOTAKBANK.NS’, ‘LT.NS’, ‘M&M.NS’, ‘MARUTI.NS’, ‘NESTLEIND.NS’, ‘NTPC.NS’, ‘ONGC.NS’, ‘POWERGRID.NS’, ‘RELIANCE.NS’, ‘SBIN.NS’, ‘SUNPHARMA.NS’, ‘TCS.NS’, ‘TATAMOTORS.NS’, ‘TATASTEEL.NS’, ‘TECHM.NS’, ‘TITAN.NS’, ‘ULTRACEMCO.NS’, ‘UPL.NS’, ‘VEDL.NS’, ‘WIPRO.NS’, ‘YESBANK.NS’, ‘ZEEL.NS’]
I would like to remove the upper quotes. This is because the exported file also has the quote.
I can just convert this to df = pd.Dataframe(nifty_symbol) which would solve the problem but I still want to learn how I could have used the .strip function.
Any help would be helpful.
Thanks
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Answer
There are no actual quotes in the list of strings. The single quotes surrounding each element are put there by python to let you know it is a string, as opposed to some other datatype. If you print each element individually, or store it in a file, you will not see the quotes.