Double Quotes will not go away, must be missing something

[smiths87]

I found the solution - the real issue is that the file had 'smart quotes' in it, not just straight quotes.  Finally narrowed it down to that, and the below code with the smart quote in the replace argument worked.  Thanks for the replies.

import os


mypath = 'C:\\csv\\'
myoutputpath = 'C:\\csv\\output\\'

for file in os.listdir(mypath): # This will loop through every file in the folder
    if '.csv' in file:  # Check if it's a csv file
        fpath = os.path.join(mypath, file)
        fpath_out = os.path.join(myoutputpath, file) #+ '_output' # Create an output file with a similar name to the input file
        with open(fpath) as infile:
            lines = infile.readlines()  # Read all lines
        with open(fpath_out, 'w') as outfile:
            for line in lines:  # One line at a time
                outfile.write(line.replace(u'\u201d', ''))# Remove each " and write the line
        
        infile.close()
        outfile.close()