Question

For example…

s = 'The fox jumped over a big brown log.'

k = FUNCTION(s,4)

k should be... "The fox jumped over"

I can write my own function that splits on whitespace, cuts the list and then joins the list. But that is too much work.

Anyone else knows a simpler way?

Answer 1

Something like this:

def f(s, n):
    return ' '.join(s.split()[:n])

But it is still splitting, slicing and joining…