how to skip double quotes in python string code example

Example: remove single and double quotes from string python

a_string = '"ab"cd"'
stripped_string = a_string.strip('"') # Only removes quote marks at each end
									  # of the string.
print(stripped_string)  #Output: ab"cd

replaced_string = a_string.replace('"',"") #Removes al quote marks from 
										   # string.
print(replaced_string) #Output: abcd