On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:09:49PM +, Bob Williams wrote:
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> Hi List,
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> I have two problems, but it's possible that one solution will suffice.
> I am using a module called mutagen to extract audio metadata from
> .flac files. The output of
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On 26/02/14 17:29, Ben Finney wrote:
> Bob Williams writes:
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>> In [3]: print metadata["artist"] [u'The Incredible String Band']
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>> I now want to pass that string to another program, but I want to
>> strip off the leading [u' and the trailing ']
Hi Bob,
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In [3]: print metadata["artist"]
[u'The Incredible String Band']
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Here u' and ' is not something you can strip off as it is part of python
datatype called UNICODE. Python prints a word or sentence in double or
singles quotes when it is a STRING or UNICODE in interpreter. These are
Bob Williams writes:
> In [3]: print metadata["artist"]
> [u'The Incredible String Band']
>
> I now want to pass that string to another program, but I want to strip
> off the leading [u' and the trailing '].
You may be assuming that ‘metadata["artist"]’ is a text string; I
suspect it is not.
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