On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Norman Khine <nor...@khine.net> 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'
strip() doesn't do what you want. It removes any of the characters in the given string, in any order. > I would like to return: > >>>> item_strip > '/company/news' > > What is the best way to do this. To remove a fixed string use slicing: item_strip = item_path[len('/companies'):] Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor