string - Python - Most elegant way to extract a substring, being given left and right borders -

i have string - python :

string = "/foo13546897/bar/atlantis-gps-coordinates/bar457822368/foo/"

expected output :

"atlantis-gps-coordinates"

i know expected output surrounded "/bar/" on left , "/" on right :

"/bar/atlantis-gps-coordinates/"

proposed solution :

a = string.find("/bar/") b = string.find("/",a+5) output=string[a+5,b]

this works, don't it. know beautiful function or tip ?

you can use split:

>>> string.split("/bar/")[1].split("/")[0] 'atlantis-gps-coordinates'

some efficiency adding max split of 1 suppose:

>>> string.split("/bar/", 1)[1].split("/", 1)[0] 'atlantis-gps-coordinates'

>>> string.partition("/bar/")[2].partition("/")[0] 'atlantis-gps-coordinates'

or regex:

>>> re.search(r'/bar/([^/]+)', string).group(1) 'atlantis-gps-coordinates'

depends on speaks , data.

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