title: Python List to String Conversion
body: <p>This seems like a simple task and I'm not sure if I've accomplished it already, or if I'm chasing my tail. </p>
  
  <pre><code>values = [value.replace('-','') for value in values] ## strips out hyphen (only 1)
              print values ## outputs ['0160840020']
              parcelID = str(values) ## convert to string
              print parcelID ##outputs ['0160840020']
              url = 'Detail.aspx?RE='+ parcelID ## outputs Detail.aspx?RE=['0160840020']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see I'm trying to append the number attached to the end of the URL in order to change the page via a POST parameter.  My question is how do I strip the [' prefix and '] suffix?  I've already tried parcelID.strip("['") with no luck.  Am I doing this correctly?</p>