[SOLVED] [Python] strip a line using delimiters.

[buttertoad]

I apologize if this is covered elsewhere but I did not find it.

My goal is a program that will take a chunk of data from a serial connection, remove the garbage, and print one line from it.

So far I can open the serial connection, get the data, remove the esc characters but I can't figure out how to strip the line I want. The line always starts with #! and ends with #n. The line is formated how I want it as far as whitespace goes, but the length of the line is subject to change.

I'm sure the answer is staring me in the face but I can't figure it out.
I'm very new to python so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[Greyed]

Does the line contain #? If not,



>>> '#!Some random string.#n'
'#!Some random string.#n'
>>> spam = '#!Some random string.#n'
>>> spam.split('#')
['', '!Some random string.', 'n']
>>> ham = spam.split('#')[1]
>>> ham
'!Some random string.'
>>> ham[1:]
'Some random string.'


That's just to show how to extract one string from the middle. However, if you already have it down to the level as shown by spam then it is just a slice:



>>> spam[2:-2]
'Some random string.'

[buttertoad]

That did it! :)
Thank you.

fwiw, this is the line I was trying to extract from:

#!00:00:00 SAR SRE2 1 DV1149 NORMAL END OF TAPE #n ! !#TIME !+APPL PROC TAPE VOLUME !TMESSAGE "! #!00:00:00 SAR SRE2 1 DV1149 NORMAL END OF TAPE #n ! !#TIME !+APPL PROC TAPE VOLUME !TMESSAGE "!