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How do you substring in Python?

Hi,
I have a address "Santa Mora, AZ 86444
I want to substring this string into city, state and zip but what is the best way to do this?
Do I use partition, rfind, or or split?
Thanks
Jamie

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You can also take advantage of the multiple assignment command. If you are sure about the form of the addres, you can get rid of the temporary list name and of its indexing. The result may be more readable:

>>> s = 'Santa Mora, AZ 86444'
>>> city, XXzip = s.split(',')
>>> state, zip = XXzip.split()
>>> city
'Santa Mora'
>>> state
'AZ'
>>> zip
'86444'

If there are more complicated cases, regular expressions can be also good for extraction of the parts of the address string. However, do it without regular expression if it is easy to do it in the alternative way.

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