How to test characters of a string

De ongekruisigde ongekruisigde at news.eternal-september.org
Tue Jun 7 15:58:06 EDT 2022


On 2022-06-07, Dave <dave at looktowindward.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m new to Python and have a simple problem that I can’t seem to find the answer.
>
> I want to test the first two characters of a string to check if the are numeric (00 to 99) and if so remove the fist three chars from the string. 
>
> Example: if “05 Trinket” I want “Trinket”, but “Trinket” I still want “Trinket”. I can’t for the life of work out how to do it in Python?


  s[3:] if s[0:2].isdigit() else s


> All the Best
> Dave
>

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