If you know the indices of where the data should be in your string, you can use substrings... ie:
>>> stringy = " Happy Happy Cow, 50, 1234 Your Mom's House AllTheTime,USA " >>> stringy[0:16] ' Happy Happy Cow' If the data isn't set all the time (for example, and address doesn't have a mandatory length), then you're probably stuck using the index function...unless you have everything separated by a delimiter, such as a ","...then this would work: >>> listy = stringy.split(",") >>> print listy [' Happy Happy Cow', ' 50', " 1234 Your Mom's House AllTheTime", 'USA '] Hope this helps! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list