Print one word from a string in python

Question

How can i print only certain words from a string in python ? lets say i want to print only the 3rd word (which is a number) and the 10th one

while the text length ma

Answer 1

This function does the trick:

def giveme(s, words=()):
    lista = s.split()    
    return [lista[item-1] for item in words]   

mystring = "You have 15 new messages and the size is 32000"
position = (3, 10)
print giveme(mystring, position)

it prints -> ['15', '32000']

The alternative indicated by Ignacio is very clean:

import operator

mystring = "You have 15 new messages and the size is 32000"
position = (2, 9)

lista = mystring.split()
f = operator.itemgetter(*position)
print f(lista)

it prints -> ['15', '32000']

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operator.itemgetter() ...

Return a callable object that fetches the given item(s) from its operand.

After, f = itemgetter(2), the call f(r) returns r[2].

After, g = itemgetter(2,5,3), the call g(r) returns (r[2], r[5], r[3])

Note that now positions in position should be counted from 0 to allow using directly the *position argument