f.strings

In this series of posts , learn how to use Python Library functions
How to strip off no of letters from a list of strings
The split function of string class can be used to split words from a string. do you know how to creating a abbreviated set of strings from a list. I
With a comprehension statement in Python this can’t be hard
list=['PYTHON','CPYTHON','IPYTHON'] stripped=[ k[:3] for k in list] print(stripped) ['PYT', 'CPY', 'IPY']
Here we strip of the each list element using : operator in the list and specify the number of characters want to keep.
You can also have the reverse order using k[3:] or can use the starting and ending position as follows
stripped=[ k[0:4] for k in list] print(stripped) #['PYTH', 'CPYT', 'IPYT'] stripped=[ k[1:4] for k in list] print(stripped) #['YTH', 'PYT', 'PYT']