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

I think it's easy to create a simple lambda function for this.

mystrip = lambda s, ss: s[:s.index(ss) + len(ss)]

Can be used like this:

mystr = "this should stay.zipand this should be removed."
mystrip(mystr, ".zip") # 'this should stay.zip'