python trying to remove single apostrophe

I'm using a program called CityEngine which has a python element to it.

The problem: I've just called a function on an object and returns me a list of numbers, xyz. I split the xyz into their own names. I also call a function to retrieve a different attribute related to this object to replace the previously retrieved y value.

Now, when I print the y value, it contains numerical characters only apart from decimal place. When I incorporate the y value into a new list, it's value has single apostrophe around it.

For example, print(y) returns 5.0000000

If I place it like this position[x,y,z] I get a print(position) of [0, '5.000000' , 0]. The program can't read the single apostrophes so ignored the value completely.

I've tried .remove("'","") and .strip() and nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

That looks more as if the function were not returning a number but a string. So, in order to deal with it, you’ll have to convert the string using either int() or float().

In general, if you do a print(l) on some list of items, each item will be printed with the output of it’s __repr__ method. Convention has it that the __repr__ method of string wraps the string with single apostrophes, whereas numbers do not get wrapped. This is to remove potential ambiguity. Hence, a print(l) which returned

[0, '5.00000', 0.1]

would be a list containing an int, a str and a float.

Convert it to float ... It is a string, so you need to do string to float conversion