Human word reader

[superpollo]

superpollo ha scritto:
> timo verbeek ha scritto:
>> I'm planning to create a human word program
>> A human inputs a string
>> "Give me the weather for London please."
>> Then I will strip the string.
>> "weather for london"
>> Then I get the useful information.
>> what:"weather" where:"london"
>> After that I use the info.
>>
>> I need help with getting the useful information how do I get the place
>> if I don't now how long the string is?
> 
> 
>  >>> query = "Give me the weather for London please."
>  >>> what = query.strip("Give me the ").split()[0]
>  >>> where = query.strip("Give me the " + what + " for ").split()[0]
>  >>> print what, where
> weather London
>  >>>

maybe better not with strip, fot it might not do what i intended (see 
docs); maybe preferable to use "partition" method:

 >>> query = "Give me the weather for London please."
 >>> what  = query.partition("Give me the ")[2].split()[0]
 >>> where = query.partition(" for ")[2].split()[0]
 >>> print what, where
weather London
 >>>