How to remove the first and last characters for selected text in Blender with script?

Question

How to remove the first and last characters for selected text in Blender with a script?

Answer 1

Text object's text is stored in object.data.body so it's quite easy with Python. Let's say you select all the text objects you want to do that to and want to run a script from the text editor:

import bpy

for o in bpy.context.selected_objects:
    if o.type == 'FONT':
        o.data.body = o.data.body.replace("\"", "")

This removes " by replacing it with an empty string. You could also do exactly what you asked:

import bpy

for o in bpy.context.selected_objects:
    if o.type == 'FONT':
        o.data.body = o.data.body[1:-1] 

See this for info on slicing (the "[1:-1]" part )
And this for more about working with strings