On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:22:16 -0400, Ahmed, Shakir wrote:
> I need to remove text string from the list of the numbers mentioned
> below:
>
> 080829-7_A
> 070529-5_c
> 080824-7_O
> 070405_6_p
>
> The output will be : 080829-7
>                      070529-5
>                        080824-7
>                      070405-6                                        

You need to read about slice indices. An example:

>>> a=('080829-7_A', '070529-5_c', '080824-7_O')
>>> [i[:-2] for i in a]
['080829-7', '070529-5', '080824-7']


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