In <mailman.7690.1393905834.18130.python-l...@python.org> Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> writes:
> --047d7b6dc250a1426004f3bffd8d > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Hi, ALL, > I have a csv file which depending on how it was produced gives 2 different > strings as shown in the example below (test1 and test2). > I am only interested in the first field in test1 and obviously in the whole > string of test2. > So, I tried to see if I can get what I want in one simple way, but failed. > Is it possible to process the file independently? > Thank you. split() returns a list. Use indexing to grab only the element you want, like this: t1 = test1.split(',')[0] t2 = test2.split(',')[0] -- John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to gor...@panix.com watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list