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How to strip/remove certain characters from a list

I am currently trying to remove certain characters recursively from a python list.

I have a list:

lst1 = ['ZINC1_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC2_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC3_out.pdbqt']

I would like to remove the '_out' so that the list looks like this

>>lst1
['ZINC1.pdbqt', 'ZINC2.pdbqt', 'ZINC3.pdbqt']

My current code looks like this:

lst1 = ['ZINC1_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC2_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC3_out.pdbqt']    
for i in lst1:
        lst1.strip("_out")

But I get an error: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'strip'.

Solution

  • The following code achieves your goal. As already suggested by @drum, the replace method is useful for this.

    lst1 = ['ZINC1_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC2_out.pdbqt', 'ZINC3_out.pdbqt']
lst2 = []
for i in lst1:
    lst2.append( i.replace("_out", "") )

print(lst2)