I want to use Python to pull the username from an email address. The solution I thought of was to append the email address into a list, find the index of the @ symbol, and then slice the list until I found the index.
My code is:
#!/usr/bin/env python<br/>
email = raw_input("Please enter your e-mail address: ")
email_list = []
email_list.append(email)
at_symbol_index = email_list.index("@")
email_username = email_list[0:at_symbol_index]
print email_username
But, everytime I run the script, it returns the error:
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list
What's wrong with my code?
The reason for this is that you are making a list containing the string, so unless the string entered is "@", then it is not in the list.
To fix, simply don't add the email address to a list. You can perform these operations on a string directly.
As a note, you might want to check out str.split() instead, or str.partition:
email_username, _, email_host = email.partition("@")