We can use some methods to get the only number from a string.
- int
- join
- filter
- str.isdigit
Use the following code and get integer value from string
views = '100 views'
views = int(''.join(filter(str.isdigit, views)))
print(views)
Output: 100
views = ''
views = int(''.join(filter(str.isdigit, views)))
print(views)
Throw an exception as below.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<input>", line 2, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
But is string have no number above code will throw an exception, so in this case we can use try-except to handle exception as bellow
views = '100 views'
try:
views = int(''.join(filter(str.isdigit, views)))
except:
views = 0
print(views)
Output : 100
views = ''
try:
views = int(''.join(filter(str.isdigit, views)))
except:
views = 0
print(views)
Output : 0