Remove substring from array of python strings

Question

I have an array of strings that I am scraping that looks like this ["https://rotogrinders.com/players/charlie-culberson-13456?format=json", "https://rotogrinders.com/players/charlie-culberson-13456?format=json"]

I want to remove the https://rotogrinders.com/players/ part from each string in the array. How would I do this?

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By 
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC 
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

browser = webdriver.Chrome("/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/chromedriver.exe") 

browser.get("https://rotogrinders.com/projected-stats/mlb-hitter?site=fanduel")

# Wait 20 seconds for page to load
timeout = 20
try:
    WebDriverWait(browser, timeout).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'player-popup')))
except TimeoutException:
    print("Timed out waiting for page to load")
    browser.quit()

# find_elements_by_xpath returns an array of selenium objects.

players_info = []

players = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('div.player')

for player in players:
    link = player.find_element_by_class_name('player-popup')
    players_info.append(link.get_attribute('href'))

jgsedi · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-23 15:43:24Z

2

You could simply do:

listbase = ["https://rotogrinders.com/players/charlie-culberson-13456?format=json",
        "https://rotogrinders.com/players/charlie-culberson-13456?format=json"]
_list = [element.split("/", maxsplit=4)[-1] for element in listbase]

edited Aug 23, 2019 at 15:43

answered Aug 21, 2019 at 21:15

jgsedi

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2 Comments

benvc Over a year ago

Similarly, you could so something like [u.rsplit('/')[-1] for u in urls]. As an aside, it is usually a good idea to avoid using built-ins like list as variable names.

jgsedi Over a year ago

uups - you're right @benvc - it was just quick'n dirty ;)

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