remove characters from a list of strings in python

Question

I have a list of strings that contain a url plus some other words. The URL looks like this: <a href="https://www.blabla/k20832"> I was wondering if there is a way to tell python to delete everything inside the <> .

I was using this to delete other words:

list = [w.replace('hello', '') for w in list]

Answer 1

You can use regex.

import re
str = "<a href=\"https://www.blabla/k20832\"> word1 word2"
str2 = re.sub('<a.*?>', ' ', str)

Answer 2

You can use find function.

str = '< a href="https://www.blabla/k20832 > word1 word2'

start_Index=str.find('<')

end_Index=str.find('>')

print(str[:start_Index+1]+str[end_Index:])