I have a word within two opening and closing parenthesis, like this ((word)). I want to remove the first and the last parenthesis, so they are not duplicate, in order to obtain something like this: (word). I have tried using strip('()') on the variable that contains ((word)). However, it removes ALL parentheses at the beginning and at the end. Result: word. Is there a way to specify that I only want the first and last one removed? Continue reading...