title: Removing quotation marks from list items
body: <p>I am running this program:</p>
  
  <pre><code>f = open( "animals.txt", "r")
  g = f.read()
  g1 = g.split(',') #turning the file into list
  print g1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I want this to come out:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['ELDEN', 'DORSEY', 'DARELL', 'BRODERICK', 'ALONSO']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Instead, I am getting this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['"ELDEN"', '"DORSEY"', '"DARELL"', '"BRODERICK"', '"ALONSO"']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to remove the inner quotes</p>