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pythonpython-2.7
Dexter
Dexter

Reputation: 31

.remove not removing the given String

tweets = api.search(q="@mytwitter",count=100,include_entities=True)
t = ['@mytwitter', '@MyTwitter']

for s in tweets:
    sn = s.user.screen_name
    m = "@%s message" % (sn)
    s = api.update_status(m, s.id)
    #print(dir(s))

for result in tweets:
    print str(result.text)

for userName in result.text:
    if userName == "@mytwitter":
        result.text.remove(userName)
        print (userName)
    else:
        print("No username")

Not sure why userName isn't removing my Twitter name from result.text. Am I missing something? The output I'm getting is "No username" repeated a bunch of times.

If it helps the orginal output for result.text is "@mytwitter their message" I'm trying to remove the @mytwitter.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 210

Answers (2)

Diman
Diman

Reputation: 418

Your problem is that the condition

if userName == "@mytwitter":

Is never true, so .remove() never called. If you want to search for your name inside the result.text, try this: 

tweets = api.search(q="@mytwitter",count=100,include_entities=True)

for s in tweets:
    sn = s.user.screen_name
    m = "@%s message" % (sn)
    s = api.update_status(m, s.id)

for tweeet in tweets:
    if "@mytwitter" in tweeet.text:
        tweeet.text = tweeet.text.replace("@mytwitter", "")
        print(tweeet.text)
    else:
        print("No username")

p.s. The str object doesn't have .remove() method, try .replace() with empty string instead, as listed above.

Upvotes: 1

Psytho
Psytho

Reputation: 3384

Strings are immutable in Python so you have to assign your new string to another variable:

for tweet_text in tweets:
    if "@mytwitter" in tweet_text:
        new_str = tweet_text.replace("@mytwitter", "") # assigning new string wothout "@mytwitter" to another variable
        print(new_str)
    else:
        print("No username")

Example:

tweets = ["@mytwitter","1234","0987@mytwitter","@mytwitter145236","  @mytwitter12"]


for tweet_text in tweets:
    if "@mytwitter" in tweet_text:
        new_str = tweet_text.replace("@mytwitter", "") # assigning new string wothout "@mytwitter" to another variable
        print(new_str)
    else:
        print("No username")

Output:

No username

0987
145236
  12

Upvotes: 0

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