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| Date | 2013-06-04 16:48 +0100 |
|---|---|
| From | MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
| Subject | Re: lstrip problem - beginner question |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On 04/06/2013 16:21, mstagliamonte wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a beginner in python and trying to find my way through... :)
>
> I am writing a script to get numbers from the headers of a text file.
>
> If the header is something like:
> h01 = ('>scaffold_1')
> I just use:
> h01.lstrip('>scaffold_')
> and this returns me '1'
>
> But, if the header is:
> h02: ('>contig-100_0')
> if I use:
> h02.lstrip('>contig-100_')
> this returns me with: ''
> ...basically nothing. What surprises me is that if I do in this other way:
> h02b = h02.lstrip('>contig-100')
> I get h02b = ('_1')
> and subsequently:
> h02b.lstrip('_')
> returns me with: '1' which is what I wanted!
>
> Why is this happening? What am I missing?
>
The methods 'lstrip', 'rstrip' and 'strip' don't strip a string, they
strip characters.
You should think of the argument as a set of characters to be removed.
This code:
h01.lstrip('>scaffold_')
will return the result of stripping the characters '>', '_', 'a', 'c',
'd', 'f', 'l', 'o' and 's' from the left-hand end of h01.
A simpler example:
>>> 'xyyxyabc'.lstrip('xy')
'abc'
It strips the characters 'x' and 'y' from the string, not the string
'xy' as such.
They are that way because they have been in Python for a long time,
long before sets and such like were added to the language.
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lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:21 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:24 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:25 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 16:41 +0100
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:49 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-04 17:01 +0100
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-04 17:48 -0400
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:28 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:29 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-04 16:48 +0100
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 08:53 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-04 17:52 +0200
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-06-04 15:55 +0000
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question mstagliamonte <madmaxthc@yahoo.it> - 2013-06-04 09:06 -0700
Re: lstrip problem - beginner question Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-04 21:53 -0700
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