String Formatting

alisonken1 alisonken1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 19:14:50 EDT 2006


Sorry, missed an option in there:

> def get_word(s, which=1, sep=','):
>     return s.split(sep)[which-1].strip()
>
> >>>
> >>> get_word('bread, butter, milk')
> 'milk'
>
> >>>

>>> get_word('bread, butter, milk')
'bread'

>>> get_word('bread, butter, milk', 3)
'milk'

>>> get_word('bread is brown, butter is yellow, milk is white')
'bread is brown'

>>> get_word('bread is brown, butter is yello, milk is white', 3)
'milk is white'




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