What's the best way to slice the last word from a block of text?
I can think of
I'm currently taking approach #1, but I don't know how to concatenate the list...
content = content[position-1:position+249] # Content words = string.split(content, ' ') words = words[len[words] -1] # Cut of the last word
Any code examples are much appreciated.
Using rstrip() to remove the last character The rstrip() is a built-in Python function that returns a String copy with trailing characters removed. For example, we can use the rstrip() function with negative indexing to remove the final character of the string.
Remove a Word from String using replace() print("Enter String: ", end="") text = input() print("Enter a Word to Delete: ", end="") word = input() wordlist = text. split() if word in wordlist: text = text.
Method #1: Using split() Method This task can be performed using the split function which performs a split of words and separates the first word of string with the entire words.
Use Newline (\n) Character In Python, the string is split by the use of the newline (\n) character.
Actually you don't need to split all words. You can split you text by last space symbol into two parts using rsplit.
Some example:
>>> text = 'Python: Cut of the last word of a sentence?' >>> text.rsplit(' ', 1)[0] 'Python: Cut of the last word of a'
rsplit
is a shorthand for "reverse split", and unlike regular split
works from the end of a string. The second parameter is a maximum number of splits to make - e.g. value of 1
will give you two-element list as a result (since there was a single split made, which resulted in two pieces of the input string).
You should definitely split and then remove the last word because a regex will have both more complications and unnecessary overhead. You can use the more Pythonic code (assuming content is a string):
' '.join(content.split(' ')[:-1])
This splits content into words, takes all but the last word, and rejoins the words with spaces.
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