Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords

From	alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords
Date	2015-09-10 19:41 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:11:55 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

>>>> s = """1, 2, 3, 4
> ... #keyword1 ... 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 2, 3, 4, 5 ... #keyword2 ... 4, 5, 6
> ,7"""
>>>> s[s.find('keyword1') + len('keyword1'):s.find('keyword2') - 1]
> '\n3, 4, 5, 6\n2, 3, 4, 5\n'
>>>> #or s[s.find('keyword1') + len('keyword1') + 1:s.find('keyword2') -
>>>> 2]
> '3, 4, 5, 6\n2, 3, 4, 5'
>>>>

split works well
as a simple 1 liner (well 2 if you include the string setup)

>>>a="crap word1 more crap word1 again word2 still more crap"

>>>a.split('word1',1)[1].split('word2')[0]

' more crap word1 again '



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textfile: copy between 2 keywords Gerald <schweiger.gerald@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 04:18 -0700
  Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-10 22:10 +1000
  Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-09-10 16:47 +0300
  Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 16:33 +0200
    Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-09-10 18:48 +0300
  Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-09-10 19:29 +0200
    Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-09-10 12:11 -0700
      Re: textfile: copy between 2 keywords alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-10 19:41 +0000

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