python - Separation of a splited string

Question

def getOnlyNames(unfilteredString):
    unfilteredString = unfilteredString[unfilteredString.index(":"):]
    NamesandNumbers = [item.strip() for item in unfilteredString.split(';')]
    OnlyNames = []

    for i in len(productsPrices):
        x = [item.strip() for item in productsPrices[i].split(',')]
        products.append(x[0])
    return products

So I'm trying to make a function that will separate a following string

 "Cars: Mazda 3,30000;     Mazda 5, 49900;"

So I will get only:

Mazda 3,Mazda 5

First I was removing the :

then I try to get only the name of the car without the price of it

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65644889/separation-of-a-splited-string

Answer 1

"Cars: Mazda 3,30000;     Mazda 5, 49900;" 

• split on the colon

  • ['Cars', ' Mazda 3,30000;     Mazda 5, 49900;']
    

• split the last item on the semicolon

  • [' Mazda 3,30000', '     Mazda 5, 49900', '']
    

• split the first two items on the comma.

  • [' Mazda 3', '30000'], ['     Mazda 5', ' 49900']
    

• take the first item of each and strip the whitespace

  • 'Mazda 3'
    

  • 'Mazda 5'