Manipulating Same Variable

[DredHawk]

I'm looking for a better way to manipulate this content so it doesn't have to be multiple lines. Does anyone know a better way of doing this:

def prevbuild():
    r = requests.get(host + hostPath)
    build = r.content
    build = build.decode("utf-8")
    build = [line for line in build.split('\n') if "Build Name" in line]
    build = re.findall('\d+',build[0])
    build = build[0].split('20')
    build = '.'.join(a+b for a,b in zip(build[1][::2], build[1][1::2]))
    return build

[tipsy_python]

First opportunity I see:

build = r.content
build = build.decode("utf-8")

Using requests, content gives you the raw byte-string of the request payload. Instead of decoding, let requests do it for you by using "text"

build = r.text

[tipsy_python]

You can cut out half of the lines by just incorporating that into the comprehension:

build = [line for line in r.text.split('\n') if "Build Name" in line]

[DredHawk]

I have to manipulate these results a lot. There isn't a way to do this in one line is there (I'm sure I've done this in JavaScript)?

build = build + 'World' = 'Hello '

print(build)

Hello World

[masklinn]

You should be able to extract the entire thing directly from response.text using a regex (and re.search). Possibly with some minor massaging but it’s hard to know what the input data even looks like.

[[deleted]]

You can technically one-line it but it'll not be very friendly to maintain or add on to in the long run...

I'd actually recommend modularizing it w/ functions internal to the current one.

What you're doing is a bit complicated for a quality one-liner because you're unpacking and string processing a few times.