I have this string /1B5DB40?full and I want to convert it to 1B5DB40.
I need to remove the ?full and the front /
My site won't always have ?full at the end so I need something that will still work even if the ?full is not there.
Thanks and hopefully this isn't too confusing to get some help :)
EDIT:
I know I could slice at 0 and 8 or whatever, but the 1B5DB40 could be longer or shorter. For example it could be /1B5DB4000?full or /1B5
Using str.lstrip (to remove leading /) and str.split (to remove optinal part after ?):
>>> '/1B5DB40?full'.lstrip('/').split('?')[0]
'1B5DB40'
>>> '/1B5DB40'.lstrip('/').split('?')[0]
'1B5DB40'
or using urllib.parse.urlparse:
>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.urlparse('/1B5DB40?full').path.lstrip('/')
'1B5DB40'
>>> urllib.parse.urlparse('/1B5DB40').path.lstrip('/')
'1B5DB40'
You can use lstrip and rstrip:
>>> data.lstrip('/').rstrip('?full')
'1B5DB40'
This only works as long as you don't have the characters f, u, l, ?, / in the part that you want to extract.
You can use regular expressions:
>>> import re
>>> extract = re.compile('/?(.*?)\?full')
>>> print extract.search('/1B5DB40?full').group(1)
1B5DB40
>>> print extract.search('/1Buuuuu?full').group(1)
1Buuuuu
What about regular expressions?
import re
re.search(r'/(?P<your_site>[^\?]+)', '/1B5DB40?full').group('your_site')
In this case it matches everything that is between '/' and '?', but you can change it to your specific requirements
>>> '/1B5DB40?full'split('/')[1].split('?')[0]
'1B5DB40'
>>> '/1B5'split('/')[1].split('?')[0]
'1B5'
>>> '/1B5DB40000?full'split('/')[1].split('?')[0]
'1B5DB40000'
Split will simply return a single element list containing the original string if the separator is not found.
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I am trying to write a generic pattern using regex so that it fetches only particular things from the string. Let's say we have strings like GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0 or FastEthernet0/4 or Ethernet0/0.222. The regex should fetch the first 2 characters and all the numerals. Therefore, the fetched result should be something like Gi0000 or Fa04 or Et00222 depending on the above cases.
x = 'GigabitEthernet0/0/0/2
m = re.search('([\w+]{2}?)[\\\.(\d+)]{0,}',x)
I am not able to understand how shall I write the regular expression. The values can be fetched in the form of a list also. I write few more patterns but it isn't helping.
In regex, you may use re.findall function.
>>> import re
>>> s = 'GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0 '
>>> s[:2]+''.join(re.findall(r'\d', s))
'Gi0000'
OR
>>> ''.join(re.findall(r'^..|\d', s))
'Gi0000'
>>> ''.join(re.findall(r'^..|\d', 'Ethernet0/0.222'))
'Et00222'
OR
>>> s = 'GigabitEthernet0/0/0/0 '
>>> s[:2]+''.join([i for i in s if i.isdigit()])
'Gi0000'
z="Ethernet0/0.222."
print z[:2]+"".join(re.findall(r"(\d+)(?=[\d\W]*$)",z))
You can try this.This will make sure only digits from end come into play .
Here is another option:
s = 'Ethernet0/0.222'
"".join(re.findall('^\w{2}|[\d]+', s))
I am rather new to Python Regex (regex in general) and I have been encountering a problem. So, I have a few strings like so:
str1 = r'''hfo/gfbi/mytag=a_17014b_82c'''
str2 = r'''/bkyhi/oiukj/game/?mytag=a_17014b_82c&'''
str3 = r'''lkjsd/image/game/mytag=a_17014b_82c$'''
the & and the $ could be any symbol.
I would like to have a single regex (and replace) which replaces:
mytag=a_17014b_82c
to:
mytag=myvalue
from any of the above 3 strings. Would appreciate any guidance on how I can achieve this.
UPDATE: the string to be replaced is always not the same. So, a_17014b_82c could be anything in reality.
If the string to be replaced is constant you don't need a regex. Simply use replace:
>>> str1 = r'''hfo/gfbi/mytag=a_17014b_82c'''
>>> str1.replace('a_17014b_82c','myvalue')
'hfo/gfbi/mytag=myvalue'
Use re.sub:
>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile(r'(mytag=)(\w+)')
>>> r.sub(r'\1myvalue', str1)
'hfo/gfbi/mytag=myvalue'
>>> r.sub(r'\1myvalue', str2)
'/bkyhi/oiukj/game/?mytag=myvalue&'
>>> r.sub(r'\1myvalue', str3)
'lkjsd/image/game/mytag=myvalue$'
import re
r = re.compile(r'(mytag=)\w+$')
r.sub(r'\1myvalue', str1)
This is based on #Ashwini's answer, two small changes are we are saying the mytag=a_17014b part should be at the end of input, so that even inputs such as
str1 = r'''/bkyhi/mytag=blah/game/?mytag=a_17014b_82c&'''
will work fine, substituting the last mytag instead of the the first.
Another small change is we are not unnecessarily capturing the \w+, since we aren't using it anyway. This is just for a bit of code clarity.
All I want to do is remove the dollar sign '$'. This seems simple, but I really don't know why my code isn't working.
import re
input = '$5'
if '$' in input:
input = re.sub(re.compile('$'), '', input)
print input
Input still is '$5' instead of just '5'! Can anyone help?
Try using replace instead:
input = input.replace('$', '')
As Madbreaks has stated, $ means match the end of the line in a regular expression.
Here is a handy link to regular expressions: http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
In this case, I'd use str.translate
>>> '$$foo$$'.translate(None,'$')
'foo'
And for benchmarking purposes:
>>> def repl(s):
... return s.replace('$','')
...
>>> def trans(s):
... return s.translate(None,'$')
...
>>> import timeit
>>> s = '$$foo bar baz $ qux'
>>> print timeit.timeit('repl(s)','from __main__ import repl,s')
0.969965934753
>>> print timeit.timeit('trans(s)','from __main__ import trans,s')
0.796354055405
There are a number of differences between str.replace and str.translate. The most notable is that str.translate is useful for switching 1 character with another whereas str.replace replaces 1 substring with another. So, for problems like, I want to delete all characters a,b,c, or I want to change a to d, I suggest str.translate. Conversely, problems like "I want to replace the substring abc with def" are well suited for str.replace.
Note that your example doesn't work because $ has special meaning in regex (it matches at the end of a string). To get it to work with regex you need to escape the $:
>>> re.sub('\$','',s)
'foo bar baz qux'
works OK.
$ is a special character in regular expressions that translates to 'end of the string'
you need to escape it if you want to use it literally
try this:
import re
input = "$5"
if "$" in input:
input = re.sub(re.compile('\$'), '', input)
print input
You need to escape the dollar sign - otherwise python thinks it is an anchor http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
import re
fred = "$hdkhsd%$"
print re.sub ("\$","!", fred)
>> !hdkhsd%!
Aside from the other answers, you can also use strip():
input = input.strip('$')
I am completely new to Python and don't know how to get a sub-string which matches some wildcard condition from a string.
I am trying to get a timestamp from the following string:
sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671.data
I want to get only "1360922654.97671" part out of the string.
Please help.
Because you mentioned wildcards you can use re
In [77]: import re
In [78]: s = "sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671.data"
In [79]: re.findall("\d+\.\d+", s)
Out[79]: ['1360922654.97671']
If the dots and dashes have their specific function within your string, you can use this:
>>> s = "sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671.data"
>>> s.rsplit('.', 1)[0].split('-')[-1]
'1360922654.97671'
Step by step:
>>> s.rsplit('.', 1)
['sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671', 'data']
>>> s.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
'sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671'
>>> s.rsplit('.', 1)[0].split('-')
['sdc4', '251504', '7f5', 'f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5', '1360922654.97671']
>>> s.rsplit('.', 1)[0].split('-')[-1]
'1360922654.97671'
This will work for any strings in the form:
anything-WHATYOUWANT.stringwithoutdots
>>> s = "sdc4-251504-7f5-f59c349f0e516894fc89d2686a0d57f5-1360922654.97671.data"
>>> s.split('-')[-1][:-5]
'1360922654.97671'
slightly fewer characters, only works where the last part of the string is .data or another 5 character string.
I have string: './money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
I need string: '27-10-2011 17:07:02'
How can i do this in python?
There are many ways to do this, one way is to use str.partition:
text='./money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
before,_,after = text.partition('[')
print(after[:-1])
# 27-10-2011 17:07:02
Another is to use str.split:
before,after = text.split('[',1)
print(after[:-1])
# 27-10-2011 17:07:02
or str.find and str.rfind:
ind1 = text.find('[')+1
ind2 = text.rfind(']')
print(text[ind1:ind2])
All these methods rely on the desired substring immediately following the first left-bracket [.
The first two methods also rely on the desired substring ending at the next-to-last character in text. The last method (using rfind) searches from the right for the index of the right-bracket, so it is a little more general, and does not depend on quite so many (potential off-by-one) constants.
If your string has always the same structure this is probably the simplest solution:
s = r'./money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
s[s.find("[")+1:s.find("]")]
Update:
After seeing some of the other answers this is a slight improvement:
s[s.find("[")+1:-1]
Exploiting the fact that the closing square bracket is the last character in your string.
If the format is "fixed", you can also use this
>>> s = './money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
>>> s[-20:-1:]
'27-10-2011 17:07:02'
>>>
You can also use regular expression:
import re
s = './money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
print re.search(r'\[(.*?)\]', s).group(1)
Try with a regex :
import re
re.findall(".*\[(.*)\]", './money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]')
>>> ['27-10-2011 17:07:02']
Probably the easiest way(if you know the string will always be in this format
>>> s = './money.log_rotated.27.10.2011_17:15:01:[27-10-2011 17:07:02]'
>>> s[s.index('[') + 1:-1]
'27-10-2011 17:07:02'