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How would I delete everything after a certain character of a string in python? For example I have a string containing a file path and some extra characters. How would I delete everything after .zip? I've tried rsplit and split , but neither included the .zip when deleting extra characters.
Any suggestions?
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You can remove a character or multiple characters from a string using replace() or translate(). Both the replace() and translate() methods return the same outcome: a string without the characters you have specified.
Master C and Embedded C Programming- Learn as you go In this section, we will see how to remove some characters from a string in C++. In C++ we can do this task very easily using erase() and remove() function. The remove function takes the starting and ending address of the string, and a character that will be removed.
str.partition:
>>> s='abc.zip.blech'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.zip'
>>> s='abc.zip'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.zip'
>>> s='abc.py'
>>> ''.join(s.partition('.zip')[0:2])
'abc.py'
Just take the first portion of the split, and add '.zip' back:
s = 'test.zip.zyz'
s = s.split('.zip', 1)[0] + '.zip'
Alternatively you could use slicing, here is a solution where you don't need to add '.zip' back to the result (the 4 comes from len('.zip')):
s = s[:s.index('.zip')+4]
Or another alternative with regular expressions:
import re
s = re.match(r'^.*?\.zip', s).group(0)
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