In this post, we will discuss how to get the first element after we split a string into a list in python.
In Python, we can use the str.split() method with the maxsplit argument to split a string and get the first element from it. The maxsplit is set to 1 and use the index to fetch the item from the list. eg str.split('',1)[0].
The syntax of split() method is:
str.split(seperator, maxsplit)seperator : this is the delimiter, that splits the string at the specified separator. The default is whitespace.
maxsplit : Specify the number of splits to be performed. default is -1, which means no limit.
Let’s see an example to get the first element from the string.
Example:
str = 'Python is awesome'
firt_element = str.split(' ',1)[0]
print(first_element) //PythonWe have used the ' ' (space) as the separator.
So, here we have set maxsplit to 1 which means the split()method will perform only one split.
str = 'Python is awesome'
str_split = str.split(' ',1)
print(str_split) // ['Python', 'is awesome']And from the list we got the first element i.e “Python”, using the index of it i.e 0 eg str.split(' ',1)[0]
Now if we a string have spaces at the beginning and the end of it. Then using maxsplit might give us an empty string as first character.
str = ' Python is awesome '
str_split = str.split(' ',1)[0]
print(str_split) // " "To fix this we have to remove the whitespaces from the start and end of the string using the strip() method like this.
str = ' Python is awesome '
str_split = str.strip(' ').split(' ',1)[0]
print(str_split) // PythonThe strip(' ') method removes the leading and trailing separator (here whitespace) from the string first and then split the string.
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