split

[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Martin Johansson:
> I have a string s that contains "( 7 Maj 21:58)"
> and i want to save 7 Maj in a variable named date.
> But I dont understand what I suppose to write in the split method.
> date = string.split(s, "( ", ")")

date = string.join(string.split("( 7 Maj 21:58)")[1:3], " ")

string.split only uses one separator.
Also note that in Python 2.0 and later, string methods are prefered.

date = " ".join("( 7 Maj 21:58)".split()[1:3])

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  Kalle
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