stripping a string

[Uwe Schmitt]

Leeds, Mark <mleeds at mlp.com> wrote:
 hello : i am very much a python novice because
> I only use it for preprocessing data that
> i send into another language called Splus.
>  
> I have the following problem that
> I have spent a lot of time on but I
> can't figure out.
>  
> I have a string called tickerstring
> that might be 
>  
> "ANL LN32"
>  
> and i want to get rid of the digit piece.
> so that i get "ANL LN"
>  
> i can't just take off the last two charcters
> because the string could also be
>  
> "ANL LN3" for example.
>  
> thanks to anyone who could explain
> how to do this ?
>  

If the numbers only occur at the end of the string:


    a = "ANL LN32"
    print a.rstrip("0123456789")

Greetings, Uwe.


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