Split creates a list of the parts making up the original string.
using a [:4] will call up the first 4 elements of the list.
so for a list looking like this: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
using [:4] will result in [0, 1, 2, 3]

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On 15 May 2012 23:01, Noggy <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> I don't get what ('/')[:4] is doing at the end of .split. I'm assuming the
> split command is taking the string and looking for '/' as the variable to
> separate the string. What does [:4] do?
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