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

Use slices:

s = 'test.zip.xyz'
s[:s.index('.zip') + len('.zip')]
=> 'test.zip'

And it's easy to pack the above in a little helper function:

def removeAfter(string, suffix):
    return string[:string.index(suffix) + len(suffix)]

removeAfter('test.zip.xyz', '.zip')
=> 'test.zip'