[Cash]

Is there anyway using either the strip or split function to remove everything up to the ">" ?

for example

<city>Ohama</city>

s.strip("< ").strip(" > \n").strip("/")

'city>Ohama</city'

Gets me that, I can remove the first < and last > but is there a way to take away the "city> and </city?

[Retribute]

So you just want the city name without the tags?

PHP Code


<?php 
city = "<city>Ohama</city>"
strip_city = s.lstrip("<city>").rstrip("</city>")
print(strip_city) 


[Cash]

So you just want the city name without the tags?

PHP Code


<?php 
city = "<city>Ohama</city>"
strip_city = s.lstrip("<city>").rstrip("</city>")
print(strip_city) 


Can't just do that because there is also other info like <age>, <name>, etc

[Goodies]

You could use a regular expression. Assuming, of course, you know what the input is going to be. Otherwise, you'd need a much more complex one, and I'm AWFUL with them. B3mb4m will be able to write you a nicer one.

PHP Code


<?php 
tag = re.compile(r"\<(\S+)\>(.*)</\1>")
for group in tag.findall("<city>Ohama</city><age>100</age><name>Goodies</name>"):
    tag, value = group
    print("{}: {}".format(tag, value)) 


Output:

Code

city: Ohama
age: 100
name: Goodies

[Cash]

You could use a regular expression. Assuming, of course, you know what the input is going to be. Otherwise, you'd need a much more complex one, and I'm AWFUL with them. B3mb4m will be able to write you a nicer one.

PHP Code


<?php 
tag = re.compile(r"\<(\S+)\>(.*)</\1>")
for group in tag.findall("<city>Ohama</city><age>100</age><name>Goodies</name>"):
    tag, value = group
    print("{}: {}".format(tag, value)) 


Output:

Code

city: Ohama
age: 100
name: Goodies

It's supposed to only use strip or split

[Goodies]

It's supposed to only use strip or split

Yuck. I hate constraints.

PHP Code


<?php 
data = "<name>Goodies</name>"
_ = data.lstrip("<").rstrip(">")
tag, _ = _.split(">")
value = _.split("<")[0]
print(tag, value) 


This is an absolutely ridiculous, ugly, and unsafe way of doing things, but whatever...