Norman Khine wrote:
Hello,
I have difficulties in trying to stripping the following:
>>> item_path = '/companies/company/news'
>>> item_strip = item_path.strip('/companies')
>>> item_strip
'y/new'
>>>
I would like to return:
>>> item_strip
'/company/news'
What is the best way to do this.
Read the manual?
-
- Return a copy of the string with the leading and trailing
characters removed. The chars argument is a string
specifying the set of characters to be removed.
That explains the result you are getting.
It is hard to propose a general solution, as you have given an example
rather than a specification.
take a look at the replace method for starters:
item_path.replace('/companies', '')
or item_path[len('/companies'):]
or item_path.split('/')[2:]
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