code snippets for n00bs

Here's an example how to remove a substring from a string. It utilizes the replace function of the Python string. str = 'something something <remove> something </removealso> yeah! <remove>' str = str.replace('<remove>', '') str = str.replace('</removealso>', '') print(str) You can do it also like this: str = 'something something <remove> something </removealso> yeah! <remove>' str = str.replace('<remove>', '').replace('</removealso>', '') print(str)

Here's a code example showing how to create date & time strings. # first, we need to import the datetime module # in order to use date & time functions. import datetime # create and print string example #1 timestring = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H%M") print(timestring) # create and print string example #2 timestring = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m") print(timestring) # append a text to the end of string example #2 timestring = timestring + "-logfile.txt" print(timestring) Here's what the output will look like: 2013-03-27-1449 2013-03 2013-03-logfile.txt More info on how to format the datetime string can be found here . Hope this helps you!