On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:35:26 -0700, OriginalBrownster wrote: > Hi there: > > I was wondering if its at all possible to search through a string for a > specific character. > > I want to search through a string backwords and find the last > period/comma, then take everything after that period/comma > > Example > > If i had a list: bread, butter, milk > > I want to just take that last entry of milk. However the need for it > arises from something more complicated. > > Any help would be appreciated
>>> s='bread, butter, milk' >>> s.rsplit(',', 1)[-1] ' milk' >>> s.rsplit(',', 1)[-1].strip() 'milk' Hope that helps. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list