Splitting by a pattern
You are given the movies
list where each element stores a movie name, its release date, and the director (e.g. "The Godfather, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola"
).
Let's practice some splitting with the help of regular expressions. Your task is to retrieve from each element of the list its name and the director. For example, if the element is "The Godfather, 1972, Francis Ford Coppola"
, the result would be:
['The Godfather', 'Francis Ford Coppola']
Eventually, this result should be modified to represent a single string, e.g.
"The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola"
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Practicing Coding Interview Questions in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Compile a regular expression that splits strings in
movies
into a movie name and its director. - Retrieve a movie name and its director using
re.split()
. - Create a new string with a movie name and its director separated by
,
. - Append the resulting string to
movies_without_year
.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Compile a regular expression
pattern = re.compile(____)
movies_without_year = []
for movie in movies:
# Retrieve a movie name and its director
split_result = re.split(____)
# Create a new string with a movie name and its director
movie_and_director = ', '.____
# Append the resulting string to movies_without_year
movies_without_year.____
for movie in movies_without_year:
print(movie)