string - Python Remove Comma In Dollar Amount

Question

Using Python v2, I have the user entering an amount into a string as below:

RawPurchaseAmount = raw_input("Please enter purchase amount: ")

PurchaseAmount = float(RawPurchaseAmount.strip().lstrip("$"))

This is stripping out any blank spaces at the front of the input, and removing the $ sign if one is entered.

Is there a way to remove a comma symbol if it is entered? IE: $10,000.00 to become 10000.00

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You could use replace to remove all commas:

"10,000.00".replace(",", "")