title: How can I strip first and last double quotes?
body: <p>I want to strip double quotes from:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string = '"" " " ""\\1" " "" ""'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to obtain:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string = '" " " ""\\1" " "" "'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to use <code>rstrip</code>, <code>lstrip</code> and <code>strip('[^\"]|[\"$]')</code> but it did not work.</p>
  
  <p>How can I do this?</p>