On 2020-11-07 10:51, Tim Chase wrote: > from string import ascii_lowercase > text = ",".join(ascii_lowercase) > to_throw_away = 5
[derp] For obvious reasons, these should be s/\<n\>/to_throw_away/g To throw away the trailing N delimited portions: > new_string = text.rsplit(',', n)[0] new_string = text.rsplit(',', to_throw_away)[0] and to remove the leading N fields > new_string = text.split(',', n)[-1] new_string = text.split(',', to_throw_away)[-1] -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list