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[wet heron]

hi so

[weak girder]

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[wet heron]

        price = price_tag.get_text(strip=True).replace('$', '').replace('\'', '') if price_tag else None
``` price normally looks like '$0.24. why isn't this working. $ gets removed fine but the ' stays

[pearl bane]

because you cant do .replace().replace(), it wont throw an error, but only the last replace will work

[wet heron]

if the last replace will work then why is ' staying but $ getting replaced?

the output is '0.24

so the first replace works but the last doesn't

[pearl bane]

oh sorry i read that wrong, then the first one is the one that works, wasnt sure as i didnt see the second part at first

[wet heron]

it's fine I get what u mean

is there any solution tho?

or should I just add another variable and then replace again?

[pearl bane]

waitt, i just tried it but removed the get text function cuz that isnt native, and it worked

price =  "'$0.24"
price = price.replace('$', '').replace('\'', '') if price else None
print(price)

this worked

honestly it '$ are always the first 2 characters

you could get away with just slicing off the first 2 characters

[wet heron]

oh yeah didn't even think of that

[wet heron]

I need get tho

[pearl bane]

can you show the function and whats in it?

[wet heron]

it's pretty big ngl. all I'm doing is scraping

[pearl bane]

are you sure that its returning '$0.24

you could print what its returning

[wet heron]

I'll check rn 1 sec

[pearl bane]

take your time

[wet heron]

dang

it's printing out as 0.24

so ig .replace().replace() does work

probably somewhere else is messing up then

[pearl bane]

it does i was the stupid one lol

this worked:

price =  "'$0.24"
price = price.replace('$', '').replace('\'', '') if price else None
print(price)

this removed both correctly

[wet heron]

yeah I don't think this is the problem

I'm getting this data and dumping to a spreadsheet

so probably somehow during the dump process the ' gets added

idk why I'm trying to find it rn

[pearl bane]

maybe add a replace at the end right before dumping to replace ' with " " and see if that works?

as i dont have most of ur code im not really sure sorry

[wet heron]

I'll try that

[wet heron]

you helped a ton

ima try and figure it out if I do I'll post the solution here

[pearl bane]

okay good luck!! <3

[wet heron]

        price = price_tag.get_text(strip=True).replace('$', '').replace('\'', '') if price_tag else None
        price = float(price) if price else None
``` this ended up working. thanks for the help!

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