Extract a substring in a string

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I have a list of strings with the same pattern and I want to extract the middle of those strings

my_list=["This is my first string","This is my second string"]
my_list2=[string[5:] for string in my_list]
my_list2=[string[:-7] for string in my_list]

Output: ["is my first","is my second"] My solution is working but How can I simplify the two list comprehensions into one line of code ?

AdamGold · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-09 09:54:17Z

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Whenever you use a list comprehension, it generates a new list, therefore, your last saved value in my_list2 was overwritten. There is no reason to use 2 list comprehensions then:

In [1]: my_list=["This is my first string","This is my second string"]
In [2]: [string[5:-7] for string in my_list]
Out[2]: ['is my first', 'is my second']

edited Aug 9, 2019 at 9:54

answered Aug 9, 2019 at 9:34

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Wamiq Adnan · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-09 09:37:03Z

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As far I understand your problem you are just removing first and last word So, for this use split and exclude first and last words

answered Aug 9, 2019 at 9:37

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