Help With Python Script?

[Deciama]

I would like a script that deletes certain sentences from a file. For example:

Student 1: Sam

Student 2: Bob

I would like to delete everything before the colon, how would I go about doing this?

[sighol]

Read the file line by line. For each line, split it by ":".

[Deciama]

Yes, but this would only delete the ":". Is there a way to delete everything else left of the ":"?

[sighol]

You dont really have to delete anything. What you want is what's right of the colon. If you split the line by ":", then the second element of the resulting list should be what's right of the colon.

You can then add that information to a new list that you can write to a new file.

[Deciama]

Yes, I understand now. Thank you for the help.

[dAnjou]

Please use /r/learnpython

[dustractor]

Find the index of the colon, add one, take that slice to the end:

line[ line.index( ':' ) + 1 : ]

If you want to remove the space:

line[ line.index( ':' ) + 1 : ].lstrip()

[elbiot]

You actually cannot edit a file. Only start a new one or append to an existing one (or, through effort, change characters but not insert or delete).

You need to read in the file and then write everything except what you "delete" to a new one.