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IFake
IFake

Reputation:

Using Python split to splice a variable together

I have this list 

["[email protected] : martin00", ""],

How do I split so it only be left with:

[email protected]:martin00

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1992

Answers (6)

Yoni Samlan
Yoni Samlan

Reputation: 38075

lists can be accessed by index or sliced into smaller lists.
http://diveintopython3.ep.io/native-datatypes.html

Upvotes: 0

Abgan
Abgan

Reputation: 3716

Do you want to have: aList[0] ?

EDIT::
Oh, you have a tuple with the list in it! Now I see:

al = ["[email protected] : martin00", ""],
#type(al) == tuple
#len(al) == 1
aList = al[0]
#type(aList) == list
#len(aList) == 2
#Now you can type:
aList[0]
#and you get:
"[email protected] : martin00"

You can use aList[0].replace(' : ', ':') if you wish to remove spaces before and after colon, suit your needs. I think that the most confusing thing here is the coma ending the first line. It creates a new tuple, that contains your list.

Upvotes: 3

Ionuț G. Stan
Ionuț G. Stan

Reputation: 179199

al = ["[email protected] : martin00", ""],
print al[0][0].replace(" : ", ":")

Upvotes: 3

SilentGhost
SilentGhost

Reputation: 319949

comma at the end means that list is first member of a tuple, but to your question:

in_list = ["[email protected] : martin00", ""]
result = ''.join(in_list[0].split(' '))

Upvotes: 2

Dana
Dana

Reputation: 32997

Abgan, is probably correct, although if you still want a list, ie., 

["[email protected] : martin00"]

you'd want:

the_list[:1]

Upvotes: 0

Charlie Martin
Charlie Martin

Reputation: 112414

Exactly. 

    $ python
    Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Dec  4 2008, 11:34:15) 
    [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> al = ["[email protected] : martin00", ""]
    >>> print al[0]
    [email protected] : martin00
    >>>

Upvotes: 1

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