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Jacob Roff
300 Pointsdeleting variables from strings
if I have a string such as message = "I need to go home now" and I want to delete only the word "home" from that string how would I do that without having to delete the whole string?
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,783 PointsStrings are immutable (you can't change them) but you can create a new one that has the word removed from it:
original = "I need to go home now"
message = original.replace("home ", "") # remove the word "home "
print(message) # shows "I need to go now"
If needed, you can also re-assign the same variable with the new string value:
original = original.replace("home ", "")