I want to delete the characters in the text using the replace() function for python, but only half of them are deleted

Question

minutes = ("<5 Seconds").text.replace("<", "0.").replace("Seconds", "")
print(minutes)

The output i wanted: 0.5

output: <5

how can I fix it?

Answer 1

You can do like this:

m = '<5 Seconds'
m = m.replace('<', '0.').replace('Seconds', '')
print(m)

0.5