I have the following code:

url = 'abcdc.com'
print(url.strip('.com'))

I expected: abcdc

I got: abcd

Now I do

url.rsplit('.com', 1)

Is there a better way?

strip doesn’t mean “remove this substring”. x.strip(y) treats y as a set of characters and strips any characters in that set from the ends of x.

Instead, you could use endswith and slicing:

url = 'abcdc.com'
if url.endswith('.com'):
    url = url[:-4]

Or using regular expressions:

import re
url = 'abcdc.com'
url = re.sub('\.com$', '', url)

If you are sure that the string only appears at the end, then the simplest way would be to use ‘replace’:

url = 'abcdc.com'
print(url.replace('.com',''))

def strip_end(text, suffix):
    if not text.endswith(suffix):
        return text
    return text[:len(text)-len(suffix)]

Since it seems like nobody has pointed this on out yet:

url = "www.example.com"
new_url = url[:url.rfind(".")]

This should be more efficient than the methods using split() as no new list object is created, and this solution works for strings with several dots.

Depends on what you know about your url and exactly what you’re tryinh to do. If you know that it will always end in ‘.com’ (or ‘.net’ or ‘.org’) then

 url=url[:-4]

is the quickest solution. If it’s a more general URLs then you’re probably better of looking into the urlparse library that comes with python.

If you on the other hand you simply want to remove everything after the final ‘.’ in a string then

url.rsplit('.',1)[0]

will work. Or if you want just want everything up to the first ‘.’ then try

url.split('.',1)[0]

If you know it’s an extension, then

url = 'abcdc.com'
...
url.rsplit('.', 1)[0]  # split at '.', starting from the right, maximum 1 split

This works equally well with abcdc.com or www.abcdc.com or abcdc.[anything] and is more extensible.

In one line:

text if not text.endswith(suffix) or len(suffix) == 0 else text[:-len(suffix)]

How about url[:-4]?

For urls (as it seems to be a part of the topic by the given example), one can do something like this:

import os
url = 'http://www.stackoverflow.com'
name,ext = os.path.splitext(url)
print (name, ext)

#Or:
ext = '.'+url.split('.')[-1]
name = url[:-len(ext)]
print (name, ext)

Both will output: ('http://www.stackoverflow', '.com')

This can also be combined with str.endswith(suffix) if you need to just split “.com”, or anything specific.

url.rsplit(‘.com’, 1)

is not quite right.

What you actually would need to write is

url.rsplit('.com', 1)[0]

, and it looks pretty succinct IMHO.

However, my personal preference is this option because it uses only one parameter:

url.rpartition('.com')[0]

Starting in Python 3.9, you can use removesuffix instead:

'abcdc.com'.removesuffix('.com')
# 'abcdc'

If you need to strip some end of a string if it exists otherwise do nothing. My best solutions. You probably will want to use one of first 2 implementations however I have included the 3rd for completeness.

For a constant suffix:

def remove_suffix(v, s):
    return v[:-len(s) if v.endswith(s) else v
remove_suffix("abc.com", ".com") == 'abc'
remove_suffix("abc", ".com") == 'abc'

For a regex:

def remove_suffix_compile(suffix_pattern):
    r = re.compile(f"(.*?)({suffix_pattern})?$")
    return lambda v: r.match(v)[1]
remove_domain = remove_suffix_compile(r"\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{3,}")
remove_domain("abc.com") == "abc"
remove_domain("sub.abc.net") == "sub.abc"
remove_domain("abc.") == "abc."
remove_domain("abc") == "abc"

For a collection of constant suffixes the asymptotically fastest way for a large number of calls:

def remove_suffix_preprocess(*suffixes):
    suffixes = set(suffixes)
    try:
        suffixes.remove('')
    except KeyError:
        pass

    def helper(suffixes, pos):
        if len(suffixes) == 1:
            suf = suffixes[0]
            l = -len(suf)
            ls = slice(0, l)
            return lambda v: v[ls] if v.endswith(suf) else v
        si = iter(suffixes)
        ml = len(next(si))
        exact = False
        for suf in si:
            l = len(suf)
            if -l == pos:
                exact = True
            else:
                ml = min(len(suf), ml)
        ml = -ml
        suffix_dict = {}
        for suf in suffixes:
            sub = suf[ml:pos]
            if sub in suffix_dict:
                suffix_dict[sub].append(suf)
            else:
                suffix_dict[sub] = [suf]
        if exact:
            del suffix_dict['']
            for key in suffix_dict:
                suffix_dict[key] = helper([s[:pos] for s in suffix_dict[key]], None)
            return lambda v: suffix_dict.get(v[ml:pos], lambda v: v)(v[:pos])
        else:
            for key in suffix_dict:
                suffix_dict[key] = helper(suffix_dict[key], ml)
            return lambda v: suffix_dict.get(v[ml:pos], lambda v: v)(v)
    return helper(tuple(suffixes), None)
domain_remove = remove_suffix_preprocess(".com", ".net", ".edu", ".uk", '.tv', '.co.uk', '.org.uk')

the final one is probably significantly faster in pypy then cpython. The regex variant is likely faster than this for virtually all cases that to not involve huge dictionaries of potential suffixes that cannot be easily represented as a regex at least in cPython.

In PyPy the regex variant is almost certainly slower for large number of calls or long strings even if the re module uses a DFA compiling regex engine as the vast majority of the overhead of the lambda’s will be optimized out by the JIT.

In cPython however the fact that your running c code for the regex compare almost certainly out ways the algorithmic advantages of the suffix collection version in almost all cases.

If you mean to only strip the extension:

'.'.join('abcdc.com'.split('.')[:-1])
# 'abcdc'

It works with any extension, with potential other dots existing in filename as well. It simply splits the string as a list on dots and joins it without the last element.

import re

def rm_suffix(url = 'abcdc.com', suffix='\.com'):
    return(re.sub(suffix+'$', '', url))

I want to repeat this answer as the most expressive way to do it. Of course, the following would take less CPU time:

def rm_dotcom(url = 'abcdc.com'):
    return(url[:-4] if url.endswith('.com') else url)

However, if CPU is the bottle neck why write in Python?

When is CPU a bottle neck anyway? In drivers, maybe.

The advantages of using regular expression is code reusability. What if you next want to remove ‘.me’, which only has three characters?

Same code would do the trick:

>>> rm_sub('abcdc.me','.me')
'abcdc'

In my case I needed to raise an exception so I did:

class UnableToStripEnd(Exception):
    """A Exception type to indicate that the suffix cannot be removed from the text."""

    @staticmethod
    def get_exception(text, suffix):
        return UnableToStripEnd("Could not find suffix ({0}) on text: {1}."
                                .format(suffix, text))


def strip_end(text, suffix):
    """Removes the end of a string. Otherwise fails."""
    if not text.endswith(suffix):
        raise UnableToStripEnd.get_exception(text, suffix)
    return text[:len(text)-len(suffix)]

Here,i have a simplest code.

url=url.split(".")[0]

Assuming you want to remove the domain, no matter what it is (.com, .net, etc). I recommend finding the . and removing everything from that point on.

url = 'abcdc.com'
dot_index = url.rfind('.')
url = url[:dot_index]

Here I’m using rfind to solve the problem of urls like abcdc.com.net which should be reduced to the name abcdc.com.

If you’re also concerned about www.s, you should explicitly check for them:

if url.startswith("www."):
   url = url.replace("www.","", 1)

The 1 in replace is for strange edgecases like www.net.www.com

If your url gets any wilder than that look at the regex answers people have responded with.

I used the built-in rstrip function to do it like follow:

string = "test.com"
suffix = ".com"
newstring = string.rstrip(suffix)
print(newstring)
test

You can use split:

'abccomputer.com'.split('.com',1)[0]
# 'abccomputer'

This is a perfect use for regular expressions:

>>> import re
>>> re.match(r"(.*)\.com", "hello.com").group(1)
'hello'

Python >= 3.9:

'abcdc.com'.removesuffix('.com')

Python < 3.9:

def remove_suffix(text, suffix):
    if text.endswith(suffix):
        text = text[:-len(suffix)]
    return text

remove_suffix('abcdc.com', '.com')