a='test string' print a.split()[:-1] I'm assuming that you want the last space separated word?
Larry Bates paulm wrote: > Hi, > In perl I can do something like: > > $a = 'test string'; > $a =~ /test (\w+)/; > $b = $1; > print $b . "\n"; > > and my output would be "string". > > How might this snippet be written in python? > > Thanks to all... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list