Retrieve items from a string

[sravan953]

I have a string, say for example:

str="aasd<script>"

How do I make Python to note down one character at a time until it encounters the '<'? I know it has to be a loop, but which function?

Thanks

[vegaseat]

First of all do not use 'str' as a variable name, it is a Python function.
Here is an example of the loop ...

mystr = "aasd<script>"

for c in mystr:
    if c == '<':
        break
    else:
        print(c)

[siddhant3s]

>I know it has to be a loop, but which function?
Why are you so sure?

>>> s="asdf<script"
>>> print s[:s.find('<')]
asdf
>>>

[sravan953]

>I know it has to be a loop, but which function?
Why are you so sure?

>>> s="asdf<script"
>>> print s[:s.find('<')]
asdf
>>>

I didn't understand, can you please explain to me your code character by character?

[siddhant3s]

You should know that python supports slicing. If you do not, read the python tutorial.
The find function returns the first occurrence of the string you pass as the argument. [In the previous example, it returns 4].
So, when I say s[:find("<")] I mean to say " slice me s, from the beginning till the occurrence of '<' ".
You should perhaps go and read the manual if you still don't understand the code.