Question

I am working with python and I am new to it. I am looking for a way to take a string and split it into two smaller strings. An example of the string is below

wholeString = '102..109'

And what I am trying to get is:

a = '102'
b = '109'

The information will always be separated by two periods like shown above, but the number of characters before and after can range anywhere from 1 – 10 characters in length. I am writing a loop that counts characters before and after the periods and then makes a slice based on those counts, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant way that someone knew about.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:

a, b = wholeString.split('..')

It’ll put each value into the corresponding variables.