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Chop off text when it reaches certain word in Python

I'm using Python and I have an HTML-code which I want to chop off as soon as it reaches the word "toc", but I can't figure out how to do, anyone having some nice ideas?

Solution

  • Without more information, something like the following works

    s = "some string toc remainder of string"

s = s[:s.find('toc')]

print s  # some string

    But be aware that this will catch words like "stock" -- so there's likely a better approach depending on your specifics.