Question : Python: how to retrieve substring from file name

hi experts,

With the attached code snippt I have found those files that I wanted. There files are

file name: -->: OUT20090121155642-PartnerL-x7xT
file name: -->: OUT20090121160716-PartnerL-UdTp
file name: -->: OUT20090121155138-PartnerL-ZQpz

Now from the file names I want to get
1556
1607
1551
These are hours and minutes. How to retrieve them? I tried filename.index(3, 14) but it did not work.

Thanks for any replies.

Code Snippet:

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dir = '/home/talog_data/' for filename in os.listdir(dir): if re.search('PartnerL', filename): print "file name: -->:", filename

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Answer : Python: how to retrieve substring from file name

This outputs 1556:

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fn = 'OUT20090121155642-PartnerL-x7xT' hhmm = fn[11:11+4] print(hhmm) # 1556

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