Adding a char inside path string

[Hitesh]

That might work but what if I get (in future) a path name where
foldername (and in windows it is very common, someone might name a
folder something like "Screw You") with space?



Larry Bates wrote:
> Sounds like you can split the string on a space and throw
> away the right side:
>
> s='\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe' -u ABC -g XYZ
> p=s.split(" ", 1)[0]
> print p
>
> '\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe'
>
> Larry Bates
>
> Hitesh wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Everything is working fine and dandy but I ran across another issue
> > here.
> > Some of the path comes with some extra chars padded at the end.
> > i.e.
> >
> > '\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe' -u ABC -g XYZ
> > abcdef
> >
> > Now those padded chars are not constant all the time. It can be
> > anything.
> > Only common denometer in each string that comes with those padded chars
> > is that it is after .exe and then there is space and then 99% of the
> > time it is -u and then there can be anything, I meant its dynemic after
> > that.
> >
> > so I am using string1.find(".exe") and could retrive the index but
> > don't know how to get rid any garbase after index + 4
> >
> > hj
> >
> >
> > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> >> On 16 Aug 2006 09:00:57 -0700, "Hitesh" <hitesh287 at gmail.com> declaimed
> >> the following in comp.lang.python:
> >>
> >>> Thank you Fredrik. That works for a string.
> >>> But I am getting list of tuples from DB.
> >>>
> >>> rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe',),
> >>> ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2.exe',),
> >>> ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3.exe',),
> >>> ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4.exe',)]
> >>>
> >>> I tried this:
> >>> for i in rows:
> >>>     row = str(i)
> >>>     path = row.replace("C:" , "c$")
> >>>     print path
> >>>
> >>> I am getting path something like
> >>>
> >>> ('\\serverName\c$:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe',)
> >>>
> >>> How on the earth I can remove those paranthesis?
> >>>
> >> 	By accessing the contents of the tuple, not the tuple itself
> >>
> >>>>> rows = [('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example.exe',),
> >> ... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example2.exe',),
> >> ... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example3.exe',),
> >> ... ('\\serverName\C:\FolderName1\FolderName2\example4.exe',)]
> >>>>> rows
> >> [('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example.exe',),
> >> ('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example2.exe',),
> >> ('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example3.exe',),
> >> ('\\serverName\\C:\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example4.exe',)]
> >>>>> modRows = [itm[0].replace("C:", "C$") for itm in rows]
> >>>>> modRows
> >> ['\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example.exe',
> >> '\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example2.exe',
> >> '\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example3.exe',
> >> '\\serverName\\C$\\FolderName1\\FolderName2\\example4.exe']
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