Python - How to cut a string in Python?

Question

Suppose that I have the following string:

http://www.domain.com/?s=some&two=20

How can I take off what is after & includin

Answer 1

You can use find()

>>> s = 'http://www.domain.com/?s=some&two=20'
>>> s[:s.find('&')]
'http://www.domain.com/?s=some'

Of course, if there is a chance that the searched for text will not be present then you need to write more lengthy code:

pos = s.find('&')
if pos != -1:
    s = s[:pos]

Whilst you can make some progress using code like this, more complex situations demand a true URL parser.