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Python Python Basics (2015) Python Data Types Deletion

Posted by Arikaturika Tumojenko
Arikaturika Tumojenko
8,897 Points

What if I want to delete a word from a string?

To see if I got this right, if I want to delete a whole word from a string, I should convert the string to a list, remove all the letters individually and after convert the list back into a string?

1 Answer

Tom Slutsky
Tom Slutsky
12,453 Points
Tom Slutsky
Tom Slutsky
12,453 Points 
str = "this is your string"
words = str.split()
words.remove(words[0])

this will remove the first word the default behavior of split() is to split the string on every white space, the returned value is a list containing the 'words'

Arikaturika Tumojenko
Arikaturika Tumojenko
8,897 Points

Not sure we worked with index up to this video, but if we did, thx. Looks ok to me.