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metpythonstudent
metpythonstudent

Reputation: 3

Editing String Objects in a List in Python

I have read in data from a basic txt file. The data is time and date in this form "DD/HHMM" (meteorological date and time data). I have read this data into a list: time[]. It prints out as you would imagine like so: ['15/1056', '15/0956', '15/0856', .........]. Is there a way to alter the list so that it ends up just having the time, basically removing the date and the forward slash, like so: ['1056', '0956', '0856',.........]? I have already tried list.split but thats not how that works I don't think. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30

Answers (1)

Joshua Aguilar
Joshua Aguilar

Reputation: 26

I'm still learning myself and I haven't touched python in sometime, BUT, my solution if you really need one:

myList = ['15/1056', '15/0956', '15/0856']
newList = []

for x in mylist:
    newList.append(x.split("/")[1])

    # splits at '/'
    # returns ["15", "1056"]
    # then appends w/e is at index 1


print(newList) # for verification

Upvotes: 1

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