[Zope] Extracting a part of a string

[Casey Duncan]

sbergmann@weblog.de wrote:
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> Hello Zopers,
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> I have the following problem:
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> I have a string from a database and want to delete a part from the
> string and write it back to the database.
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> An example:
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> a =3D ' some words ( another words)'
> I want to extract now everything without the brackets themselves anth
> the words in the brackets.
> That should be the result.
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> a =3D 'some words'
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> How can I do that. With the string-module and "find"  I can get the
> index where the brackets begin. But there is no function to get the
> string from index 0 to the result  index of "find".
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> Is there another way to do this?
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> I=B4m sure that somebody has a solution for me.
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> Steffen

You might try:

_.string.split(a,'(')[0]

Which should still work even if the string has no "(" (it will return
the whole thing then).

hth,
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