How to extract words from the string in python?

Question

I have strings of the form

 sent="Software Development = 1831".

I want to extract only words from the string i.e. "Software Development". How I can extract this in Python.

`sent.split('=')[0].strip()` + SEARCH ! – ᴀʀᴍᴀɴ Mar 17 '17 at 09:48 — ᴀʀᴍᴀɴ, Mar 17 '17 at 09:48

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '17 at 09:48

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You can try split :

>>> sent="Software Development = 1831"
>>> sent.split("=")[0]
'Software Development '

answered Mar 17 '17 at 09:48

Harsha Biyani

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Thank you it's working now :) – neha Mar 17 '17 at 10:14
And to get whatever is on the other side you would use sent.split("=")[1] – DtechNet Jul 25 '19 at 01:59

maiky_forrester · Answer 2 · 2017-03-17T10:08:47.050

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>>> str="Software Development = 1831"

>>> str.split()
['Software', 'Development', '=', '1831']

or 

>>> str.split("=")
['Software Development ', ' 1831']

edited Mar 17 '17 at 10:08

answered Mar 17 '17 at 09:51

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 25 '19 at 05:57

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Initially you have spaces between '=', hence your code should look like this

sent="Software Development = 1831"
answer=sent.split(" = ")[0] # space before and after =

edited Jul 25 '19 at 05:57

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answered Mar 17 '17 at 09:57

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How to extract words from the string in python?

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