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'] -- Regards, Wojtek Walczak, http://tosh.pl/gminick/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list