On May 14, 2007, at 12:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am parsing an xml file ,and one part of structure looks > something like this: > > - <COMPARAM id="_338" DDORef="_18" Semantics="timing" > PhysicalLink="Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN"> > <SHORTNAME>Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN_TIMEOUT_AX</SHORTNAME> > <LONGNAME>Timeout N_As/N_Ar</LONGNAME> > <DESCRIPTION>Time from transmit request until a CAN frame transmit > confirmation is received.</DESCRIPTION> > </COMPARAM> > > In my code i am extracting the data within > <LONGNAME>,which is Timeout N_As/N_Ar.These tags repeat and will have > different timer names..like > > - <COMPARAM id="_339" DDORef="_18" Semantics="timing" > PhysicalLink="Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN"> > <SHORTNAME>Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN_TIMEOUT_BS</SHORTNAME> > <LONGNAME>Timeout N_Bs</LONGNAME> > <DESCRIPTION>Time that the transmitter of a multi-frame message > shall wait to receive a flow control (FC) frame before timing out with > a network layer error.</DESCRIPTION> > </COMPARAM> > > I need to remove the words Timeout from the data,and > take only the abbrevation..i.e.N_As/N_bs like that .In short i have to > remove the words which come with name Time,and also the space which > comes next to it. > and take only the abbreviation.Can someone help me in this. > Thanks
Assuming you're naming the string 'logname' and the only space is between the Time* word and the tags, this should work: logname.split() [-1] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
