remove single and double quotes from string python

1a_string = '"ab"cd"'
2stripped_string = a_string.strip('"') # Only removes quote marks at each end
3									  # of the string.
4print(stripped_string)  #Output: ab"cd
5
6replaced_string = a_string.replace('"',"") #Removes al quote marks from 
7										   # string.
8print(replaced_string) #Output: abcd