how to split a string to what I want in python

Question

I have string ling like this:

'Toy Stroy..(II) (1995)'

I want to split the line to two parts like this:

['Toy Story..(II)','1995']

How can I do it? thanks

Answer 1

You could use regular expressions for that. See here: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

Or you could use the split function and then manyally remove the parenthesis or other non desired characters. See here: http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/lib/module-string.html

Answer 2

l[:-1].split("(")

Answer 3

This code will get you started:

'Toy Stroy..(II) (1995)'.rstrip(')').rsplit('(',1)

Other than that, you can use r'\s*[(]\d{4}[)]\s*$' to match a four-digit number in parentheses at the end of the string. If you find it, you can chop it off:

s = ''
l = [s]
match = re.compile(r'\s*[(]\d+[)]\s*$').search(s)
if match is not None:
    l = [s[:len(match.group(0))], s[-len(match.group(0)):].trim]

Answer 4

One way is this:

s = 'Toy Stroy..(II) (1995)'
print s[:s.rfind('(')].strip()
print s[s.rfind('('):].strip("()")

Output:

Toy Stroy..(II)
1995
>>>