How to delete everything after a certain character in a string?

Question

How would I delete everything after a certain character of a string in python? For example I have a string containing a file path and some extra characters. How would I delete e

Answer 1

Just take the first portion of the split, and add '.zip' back:

s = 'test.zip.zyz'
s = s.split('.zip', 1)[0] + '.zip'

Alternatively you could use slicing, here is a solution where you don't need to add '.zip' back to the result (the 4 comes from len('.zip')):

s = s[:s.index('.zip')+4]

Or another alternative with regular expressions:

import re
s = re.match(r'^.*?\.zip', s).group(0)