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Re: newbie question

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.
Strings have a replace method. Calling replace(",", "") on the string
will do the trick here.

-- Gerhard

Aug 25 '08 #1
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