[PYTHON] Ignore some letters in string

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Some background: I have a loaded scene named HUD and I also have a list weaponList. The list has 9 items, and if I have a certain gun, there will be a string of that gun’s name in that list in a specific slot, and if I don’t have a gun, there will be None in that slot.

In my HUD scene I have 9 icons, each representing a weapon. The icon array is visible only when I change my weapon, and visible only like for 3 seconds. All of that works perfectly fine.

What I try to do now is make it not show all 9 icon objects in the HUD scene if I don’t have all the weapons. I can easily do that with setting object.color[3] = 0 to the icons that of which weapons I don’t have, but I seem to need a small wayaround:

The list weaponList looks like this: weaponList = [“Blaster”, “MachineGun”…]
The icon objects’ names in the HUD scene are: “IconBlaster”, “IconMachineGun”…

If the “Icon” wouldn’t be in the names of these objects, then the code would be simple:


for object in HUD:
   if not object.name in weaponList:
      object.color[3] = 0

But the thing is that it will apply to ALL of my objects in the HUD scene, including Health etc… That’s why I have an “Icon” prefix to the icon objects.

So I need to do something similar to this:


for object in HUD:
   if "Icon" in object.name:
      if not #object.name without the "Icon" prefix# in weaponList:
         object.color[3] = 0

What’s a convenient way in Python to write the #object.name without the “Icon” prefix#?

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SOLVED:


for object in HUD.objects:
	if "Icon" in object.name:
		iconName = object.name.lstrip("Icon")
		if not str(iconName) in weaponList:
			object.color[3] = 0