Python help

[Jere Kahanpaa]

tritran <tritran2001 at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Assume that i got the string of text such as "Student name:Yajen | Class:
> 143 | ID:205851C"
> I like to seperate this line into the 3 varibles like stName, stClass, and
> stId. How can i do this, can someone help me.
> Thank a lot

Simple solution (withot any error checking!): 

def splitpart(x): 
   return x.split(':')[1]

s = "Student name:Yajen | Class:143 | ID:205851C"
stName, stClass, stId = map(splitpart,s.split('|'))
   
# Note: Older version require string.split(s,'|')

Jere 
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