Spyros Charonis wrote:
Hello,
I've written a script that scans a biological database and extracts some
information. A sample of output from my script is as follows:
LYLGILLSHAN AA3R_SHEEP 263 31
LYMGILLSHAN AA3R_HUMAN 264 31
MCLGILLSHAN AA3R_RAT 266 31
LLVGILLSHAN AA3R_RABIT 265 31
The leftmost strings are the ones I want to keep, while I would like to get
rid of the ones to the right (AA3R_SHEEP, 263 61)
Split each line in multiple words, keeping only the first:
line = "LYLGILLSHAN AA3R_SHEEP 263 31"
# split on any whitespace, a maximum of 1 time
head, tail = line.split(None, 1)
head will be "LYLGILLSHAN" and tail will be "AA3R_SHEEP 263 31".
Or, if the text is fixed-width, you can use string slice to extract the
characters you care about:
head = line[0:11]
--
Steven
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