Remove different substrings from list of strings

Question

I have a list of strings with two different prefixes that I would like to remove.

 example_list=[
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_1',
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_2',
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_3',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_4',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_5',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_6',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_7']

I would like the new list to look like:

  example_list=[
    'ABCD_1',
    'ABCD_2',
    'ABCD_3',
    'ABCD_4',
    'ABCD_5',
    'ABCD_6',
    'ABCD_7']

I was trying something like this, but keep running into errors.

for i in example_list:
    if i.startswith('/test1/test2/test3/'):
        i=i[19:]
    else:
        i=i[25:]

try this, [x.split("/")[-1] for x in example_list]

sushanth
– sushanth

2020-07-17 11:27:25 +00:00
Commented Jul 17, 2020 at 11:27 — sushanth
– sushanth, Commented Jul 17, 2020 at 11:27

Vishal Singh · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17 11:30:36Z

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example_list = [path.split('/')[-1] for path in example_list]

Output:

['ABCD_1', 'ABCD_2', 'ABCD_3', 'ABCD_4', 'ABCD_5', 'ABCD_6', 'ABCD_7']

answered Jul 17, 2020 at 11:30

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hiro protagonist · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17 11:28:15Z

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given that these are all filesystem paths i suggest you use pathlib:

from pathlib import Path

example_list = [
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_1',
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_2',
    '/test1/test2/test3/ABCD_3',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_4',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_5',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_6',
    '/test1/test4/test5/test6/ABCD_7']

res = [Path(item).name for item in example_list]
print(res) # ['ABCD_1', 'ABCD_2', 'ABCD_3', 'ABCD_4', 'ABCD_5', 'ABCD_6', 'ABCD_7']

answered Jul 17, 2020 at 11:28

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ajay sagar · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17 11:46:31Z

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Just use reverse indexing:

new_list=[]
for i in example_list:
    j=i[-6:]
    new_list.append(j)
print(new_list)

Output will be

['ABCD_1', 'ABCD_2', 'ABCD_3', 'ABCD_4', 'ABCD_5', 'ABCD_6', 'ABCD_7']

answered Jul 17, 2020 at 11:46

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