Can Python remove double quotes from a string, when reading in text file?

Question

I have some text file like this, with several 5000 lines:

5.6  4.5  6.8  "6.5" (new line)
5.4  8.3  1.2  "9.3" (new line)

so the last term is a number between double quotes.

What I want to do is, using Python (if possible), to assign the four columns to double variables. But the main problem is the last term, I found no way of removing the double quotes to the number, is it possible in linux?

This is what I tried:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os,sys,re,string,array

name=sys.argv[1]
infile = open(name,"r")

cont = 0
while 1:
         line = infile.readline()
         if not line: break
         l = re.split("\s+",string.strip(line)).replace('\"','')
     cont = cont +1
     a = l[0]
     b = l[1]
     c = l[2]
     d = l[3]

Answer 1

for line in open(name, "r"):
    line = line.replace('"', '').strip()
    a, b, c, d = map(float, line.split())

This is kind of bare-bones, and will raise exceptions if (for example) there aren't four values on the line, etc.