I have a unicode string in python, and I would like to remove all the accents (diacritics).
I found on the Web an elegant way to do this in Java:
- convert the unicode ...
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I have a simple python code that searches a files for a string "path=c:\path" ( "c:\path" is the part that can change and returns a text after "path=". Current code sketch ... |
Let's say I have a string like that: '12,423,343.93'. How to convert it to float in simple, effective and yet elegant way?
It seems I need to remove redundant commas from the ... |
How can i remove all characters except numbers from string?
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I have some text file like this, with several 5000 lines:
5.6 4.5 6.8 "6.5" (new line)
5.4 8.3 1.2 "9.3" (new line)
so the last term is ... |
When you run something through popen in Python, the results come in from the buffer with the CR-LF decimal value of a carriage return (13) at the end of each line. ... |
I'm trying to remove the last 3 characters from a string in python, I don't know what these characters are so I can't use rstrip, I also need to remove any ... |
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I want to remove an element from list, such that the element contains 'X' or 'N'. I have to apply for a large genome. Here is an example:
input:
codon=['AAT','XAC','ANT','TTA']
expected output:
codon=['AAT','TTA']
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Suppose I have a function which can either take an iterable/iterator or a non-iterable as an argument. Iterability is checked with try: iter(arg).
Depending whether the input is an iterable or not, ... |
def remove_duplicates(strng):
"""
Returns a string which is the same as the argument except only the
first occurrence of each letter is ...
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I'm looking for the most efficient way to add an element to a comma-separated string while maintaining alphabetical order for the words:
For example:
string = 'Apples, Bananas, Grapes, Oranges'
subtraction = 'Bananas'
result = ...
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this is my main string
"action","employee_id","name"
"absent","pritesh",2010/09/15 00:00:00
so after name coolumn its goes to new line but here i append to list a new line character is added and make it ... |
I have a string as follows
CompilationStatistics_Compilation_StepList_Map_TimingUsage_ClockList_Clock_MinimumPeriod
What would be the simplest way to remove the first part (CompilationStatistics_) or the last part (_MiniumuPeriod)?
I think about using regular expression, but I expect ... |
I want to remove all empty strings from a list of strings in python.
My idea looks like this:
while '' in str_list:
str_list.remove('')
Is there any more pythonic way to ... |
how do i write a function removeThese(stringToModify,charsToRemove) that will return a string which is the original stringToModify string with the characters in charsToRemove removed from it.
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I'm trying to remove specific characters from a string using python. This is the code i'm using right now. Unfortunately it appears to do nothing to the string??
for char in line:
...
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I currently have the following code
def removeControlCharacters(line):
i = 0
for c in line:
if (c < chr(32)):
...
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Basically I want to remove a character in a string one at a time if it occurs multiple times .
For eg :- if I have a word abaccea and character 'a' ... |
fileHandle = open(filedir, 'r')
content = fileHandle.read().split('\n')
for e in content:
if (e == '' or (e[0] != r"@"):
content.remove(e)
fileHandle.close()
So, what I'm trying ... |
Example:
string1 = 'title--'
string2 = 'title-'
string3 = 'this-is-a-title----'
>> print doSomething(string1)
>> title
>> print doSomething(string2)
>> title
>> print doSomething(string3)
>> this-is-a-title
Thanks for your help.
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how remove the u in a u'string' ?
print a
u'hello world'
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I wanna remove a character from a certain position in a string. Specifically I want to remove the first character. For example, My string starts with a ":" and I want ... |
strings = ["1 asdf 2", "25etrth", "2234342 awefiasd"] #and so on
Which is the easiest way to get [1, 25, 2234342]?
How can this be done without a regex module or expression like ... |
I have the code:
theory = """}#)$[]_+(^_@^][]_)*^*+_!{&$##]((](}}{[!$#_{&{){
*_{^}$#!+]{[^&++*#!]*)]%$!{#^&%(%^*}@^+__])_$@_^#[{{})}$*]#%]{}{][@^!@)_[}{())%)
())&#@*[#}+#^}#%!![#&*}^{^(({+#*[!{!}){(!*@!+@[_(*^+*]$]+@+*_##)&)^(@$^]e@][#&)(
%%{})+^$))[{))}&$(^+{&(#%*@&*(^&{}+!}_!^($}!(}_@@++$)(%}{!{_]%}$!){%^%%@^%&#([+[
_+%){{}(#_}&{&++!@_)(_+}%_#+]&^)+]_[@]+$!+{@}$^!&)#%#^&+$@[+&+{^{*[@]#!{_*[)(#[[
]*!*}}*_(+&%{&#$&+*_]#+#]!&*@}$%)!})@&)*}#(@}!^(]^@}]#&%)![^!$*)&_]^%{{}(!)_&{_{
+[_*+}]$_[#@_^]*^*#@{&%})*{&**}}}!_!+{&^)__)@_#$#%{+)^!{}^@[$+^}&(%%)&!+^_^#}^({
*%]&@{]++}@$$)}#]{)!+@[^)!#[%@^!!"""
#theory = open("temp.txt")
key = "#@!$%+{}[]_-&*()*^@/"
new2 =""
print()
for letter in theory:
if letter not in key:
new2 ...
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Using Python v2, I have the user entering an amount into a string as below:
RawPurchaseAmount = raw_input("Please enter purchase amount: ")
PurchaseAmount = float(RawPurchaseAmount.strip().lstrip("$"))
This is stripping out any blank spaces at the ... |
i have a string "Mikael Håfström" which contains some special characters how do i remove this using python?
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I have a text file which contains a list of files.
I want to copy the files to certain location.
I have the following code
f= open("filename")
l = f.readline()
while l:
cmd ...
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What's a good way to remove all text from a file which lies between /* */ and #if 0 and corresponding #endif? I want to strip these parts from C headers. ... |
I'm having trouble getting a replace() to work
I've tried my_string.replace('\\', '') and re.sub('\\', '', my_string), but neither one works.
I thought \ was the escape code for backslash, am I wrong?
The string ... |
I need to find a way to convert the following strings in python:
0.000 => 0
0 ...
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I have a piece of Unicode text. I wanted to remove all newline characters from the text before printing the output. My code looks something like this:
input_string = u'\u3010JK\u3011\u9032\u5b66\u306b\u56f0\u3063\u305f\uff2a\uff2b\u304c\u5148\u751f\u306b\u52a9\u3051\u3066\u3082\u3089\u3046\u305f\u3081\u306b\uff33\uff25\uff38\uff01.mov'
output_string = ' ...
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I was trying to unify the lines in my file when I observed the following:
word1 word2
word1 word2
I did not understand why these lines were not combined so I opened the ... |
I have list of string but in each string is duplicate I need to remove.
f.e.:
lst = ('word1 2 36 2 2' ' word2 96 5 5 5 14' 'word3 45 ...
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So the idea is the program takes a string of characters and removes the same
string with any duplicated ... |
I'm trying to format a tab delimited txt file that has rows and columns. I'm trying to simply ignore the rows that have any empty values in it when I ... |
If I have a string list ,
a = ["asd","def","ase","dfg","asd","def","dfg"]
how can I remove the duplicates from the list?
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How to trim whitespace (including tabs)?
I Have a python code i want to eliminate all the white spaces from beginning between and to ... |
If I have a list of strings such as:
[("aaaa8"),("bb8"),("ccc8"),("dddddd8")...]
What should I do in order to get rid of all the 8s in each string? I tried using strip or replace in ... |
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Hi, I have searched the forum but did not find an answer to this. I want to create a function that receives a string, and returns it's first characters until it encounters a special character. For example, with 'BLA BLA BY???' as input, it would return 'BLA BLA BY'. If the first character is special it would return None. The issue ... |
file i/o question / sub-string removal by mucygni Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:30 pm This seems to be the perfect kind of task for python to perform, but, unfortunately, I'm not yet skilled enough to handle it. The recent question about searching for a semicolon and removing the following characters is closely related but still doesn't seem to help. I'm ... |
I have a text file that contains a list like this. 4-24-016: L15 4-24-016: L16 4-24-016: , 4-24-016: L1 4-24-016: L2 That i want to do is remove the entire line containing a comma, so that the result is something like this 4-24-016: L15 4-24-016: L16 4-24-016: L1 4-24-016: L2 What i tried: import re filename = open("i_output3.txt", 'r') p = ... |
If I have a sting such as 'r1.status', what is the best way to remove all but the first two characters so that the new string will read just 'r1'. Preferably, I will need a method that will also for the end of the string. For example, changing 'r1.status' to simply 'status'. Thanks. *EDIT* The split method will not work as ... |
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Remove characters from a string by matio Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:54 am I need to remove brackets, the 'u' character (as long as it isn't in quotes) and quotes from the output of this code: Code: Select all import sys import gtk import sqlite3 as sqlite import string class Cataloger: def on_window_destroy(self, widget, ... |
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>>> s = '''this is a test to ... remove multiple newline characters ... from a string in python ... ''' >>> s 'this is a test to\nremove multiple newline characters\nfrom a string in python\n' >>> print s this is a test to remove multiple newline characters from a string in python >>> r1 = s.replace('\n', '') >>> r2 = "".join(s.split('\n')) ... |
nn = [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 1), ('d', 1), ('e', 4), ('f', 1), ('g', 1)] print nn >>>('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 1), ('d', 1), ('e', 4), ('f', 1), ('g', 1) How to remove all of the ('string', 1) = ('a', 1), ('c', 1), ('d', 1), ('f', 1), ('g', 1)? So that I can produce the result below. print nn ... |
# WARNING: This code has not been tested! Use at own risk! def ftail(inputname, sep, outputname): ''' throw away everything before the first occurrence of sep in input_file ''' f = open(inputname, "r") x = f.read() f.close() (before, after) = ... |
Hi all, Many of you might see this as a "beginners" question, but I would like a good set of eyes to look at this problem for an efficiency standpoint. I would like to write a program that inputs a list of single lined citations (as a .txt file), with a single blank line in between and gets rid of all ... |
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