python strings

[Ubuntuud]

Hi,
I'm creating a program that can help me learn my Greek words.
But I need to divide a string in two parts.

To make it more clear, I have this string:

"koeien = cows"

And I want to divide it in:

"koeien"
and
"cows"

What is the easiest way to do this?
The only way I can think of is making a list from the string. Indexing the location of the "=". And then doing something like:

part1 = list[:indexed_location-1]
part2 = list[indexed_location+2:]

There must be an easier way...
Thanks in advance!

[<mawe>]

Hi!

Well, I think the easiest way would be to use split():

In [1]: s = "koeien = cows"

In [2]: s.split("=")
Out[2]: ['koeien ', ' cows']

Regards, mawe

[christhemonkey]

An then if you need to remove any white space before or after you could do something like:

s = "koeien = cows"
news = s.split("=")
news1 = news[0]
news2 = news[1]
news1 = news1.rstrip()
news2 = news2.strip()

Not the most elegant code i've ever written...

[<mawe>]

Ah, the whitespace, sorry, I forgot about that

s.split(" = ")

or (that's how I would do it)

[elem.strip() for elem in s.split("=")]

Regards, mawe

[Ubuntuud]

OK. Thanks a lot!