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Need help, let's assume that I have a string 'Sam-Person' in a variable called 'input'
name, kind = input.split('-')
By doing the above, I get two variable with different strings 'Sam' and 'Person'
is there a way to only get the first value name = 'Sam' without the need of the extra variable 'kind' and without having to work with lists?
When doing this, assuming that I was going to get only 'Sam':
name = input.split('-')
I get a list, and then I can access the values by index name[0] or name[1], but it is not what I want, I just want to directly get 'Sam' into the variable 'name', is there a way to do that or an alternative to split?
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Python String split() MethodThe split() method splits a string into a list. You can specify the separator, default separator is any whitespace. Note: When maxsplit is specified, the list will contain the specified number of elements plus one.
Split is used to break a delimited string into substrings. You can use either a character array or a string array to specify zero or more delimiting characters or strings. If no delimiting characters are specified, the string is split at white-space characters.
Python has no substring methods like substring() or substr(). Instead, we use slice syntax to get parts of existing strings. Python slicing is a computationally fast way to methodically access parts of your data. The colons (:) in subscript notation make slice notation - which has the arguments, start, stop and step .
Assign the first item directly to the variable.
>>> string = 'Sam-Person'
>>> name = string.split('-')[0]
>>> name
'Sam'
You can specify maxsplit argument, because you want to get only the first item.
>>> name = string.split('-', 1)[0]
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