-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/14 17:29, Ben Finney wrote: > Bob Williams <li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> writes: > >> In [3]: print metadata["artist"] [u'The Incredible String Band'] >> >> I now want to pass that string to another program, but I want to >> strip off the leading [u' and the trailing ']. > > You may be assuming that ‘metadata["artist"]’ is a text string; I > suspect it is not. > > Try ‘type(metadata["artist"])’, to get Python to tell you what the > type of that object is. > Aha! Sounds of pennies dropping ;-)
In [7]: type(metadata["artist"]) Out[7]: list In [12]: print metadata["artist"][0] The Incredible String Band Gets me what I want. Thank you. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.12.2 Uptime: 12:00pm up 13 days 20:00, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.19, 0.26 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMOKP8ACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU5a0ACdEH9kJPtHmbQ9w8YXrUc3NJT1 /t8AnitS+J4+kcM2z+Ai6Ak7cbe7Qnmk =Sv8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
