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How to get first two characters in a string - scratchmyhead - May-19-2020
I have a tuple that I converted the first part of the tuple into a string and I want to get the first two characters of that variable. For example
def searchfinmonth():
conn = sqlite3.connect('financial.db')
c = conn.cursor()
c.execute("SELECT * FROM totals")
records = c.fetchall()
lb.delete(0, END)
for record in records:
a = record[0:1] #this is equal to '05-18-2020'
b = a[0:2] #this should be equal to '05' but instead is equal to '05-18-2020'
lb.insert(END, str(record[0:1]) + " "+str(fincombo.get()[0:2]))
lb.insert(END, b)
if record[0:1] == fincombo.get()[2]:
lb.insert(END, fincombo.get())Where the variable a is equal to "05-18-2020" and I'm trying to get the first two characters of variable a which would be '05' but instead it gets the whole variable which is '05-18-2020'
RE: How to get first two characters in a string - deanhystad - May-19-2020
You are getting lists when you want to get elements. a = ['one', 'two', 'three'] b = a[0:1] # Gets a list c = b[0:2] # Gets a list x = a[0] # Gets a string from the list y = x[:2] # Gets a substring from the string print(b, c, x, y)
Output:['one'] ['one'] one onRE: How to get first two characters in a string - scratchmyhead - May-19-2020
Ok, that worked. Thank you very much!