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Python Selenium: Alternative to string formatting for lists?

I am trying to take the value from the input and put it into the browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[#class='v1Nh3 kIKUG _bz0w']") function. However, the string formatting surely doesn't work, since it's the list, hence it throws the AttributeError.
Does anyone know any alternatives to use with lists (possibly without iterating over each file)?
xpath_to_links = input('Enter the xpath to links: ')
posts = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[#class='{}']").format(devops)
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'format'

Looks like the reason of error is that you are placing the format function in the wrong place, so instead of operating on string "//div[#class='{}']" you call it for the list returned by find_elements_by_xpath. Could you please try to replace your code with one of the following lines ?
posts = browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[#class='{}']".format(devops))
posts = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(f"//div[#class='{devops}']")

Python for maya: Why can't I use a variable in concatination with a wildcard?

I'm trying to use the "ls" python command in maya, to list certain objects with a matching string in the name in concatination with a wildcard.
Simple sample code like this:
from maya.cmds import *
list = ls('mesh*')
This code works and will return a list of objects with the matching string in the name, however, I would like to use a variable instead of hard coding in the string. More like this:
from maya.cmds import *
name = 'mesh'
list = ls('name*')
OR like this:
from maya.cmds import *
name = 'mesh'
list = ls('name' + '*')
However, in both examples, it returns an empty list unlike the first. I'm not sure why this is the case because in those examples, the string concatination should come out to 'mesh*' like the first example. I couldn't find an answer on this website, so I chose to ask a question.
Thank you.
JD
PS. If there is a better way to query for objects in maya, let me know what it's called and I'll do some research into what that is. At the moment, this is the only way I know of how to search for objects in maya.

As soon as you add quotes around your variable name like this 'name', you are actually just creating a new string instead of referring to the variable.
There are many different ways to concatenate a string in Python to achieve what you want:
Using %:
'name%s' % '*'
Using the string's format method:
'{}*'.format(name)
Simply using +:
name + '*'
All of these will yield the same output, 'mesh*', and will work with cmds.ls
Personally I stick with format, and this page demonstrates a lot of reasons why.

Removing variable parts of an output

I am working with a pyowm, and I have the following output for requesting the weather of a specific place:
<pyowm.webapi25.weather.Weather - reference time=2017-05-22 19:53:00+00, status=Clear>
I am trying to get it so that I have a string with only the text that follows the status ("Clear", in this case). I haven't really found a way to do this as simply using the replace command wouldn't work since the reference time would change, meaning I can't just say:
weather = str(weather).replace("pyowm.webapi25.weather.Weather - reference time=2017-05-22 19:53:00+00, status=", "")

I'm assuming that this is a print of Weather class object which is printed on the shell. You can try doing weather_obj.get_status() to get the status string from that object. Here weather_obj is the above weather object that you have mentioned on the question.
Source Implementation Reference.
Doc Reference.

Jython How to remove characters a string

This is a WebSphere related question.
I am trying to turn this command into variables
AdminConfig.modify('(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1324400045826)'
I've found that this command:
AdminConfig.list('J2EEResourceProperty', 'URL*cam_group*)').splitlines()
Will return:
['URL(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1324400045826)', 'URL(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1355156316906)']
So I turned that command into a variable:
j2ee = AdminConfig.list('J2EEResourceProperty', 'URL*cam_group*)').splitlines()
And i'm able to get the string that I want by typing "j2ee[0]" I get
'URL(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1324400045826)'
So that is exactly what I wanted, minus the URL part in the front. How can I get rid of those characters?!

I'm not sure if I understood your requirement, but it seems to me that you want to modify some attributes of J2EEResourceProperty object.
If this is the case, then you don't need to remove that "URL" string, actually you shouldn't do that. The string 'URL(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1324400045826)' fully identifies WebSphere configuration object. Try this:
AdminConfig.modify('URL(cells/taspmociias204Cell01/clusters/cam_group|resources.xml#J2EEResourceProperty_1324400045826)', [['value', 'the new value'], ['description', 'the new description']])
BTW: you can also try using WDR library (https://github.com/WDR/wdr/). Then your script would look as follows:
prop = listConfigObjects('J2EEResourceProperty')[0]
prop.value = 'the new value'
prop.description = 'the new description'
Disclosure: I'm one of WDR contributors.

You could always use a simple replace regular expression to parse out the URL part.
For example:
import re
mystr = 'URL(blahblahblah)'
re.sub(r'^URL', "", mystr)
This is a handy tool to learn and test your regular expressions to make sure they are correct.
http://gskinner.com/RegExr/

How do you get the current text contents of a QComboBox?

Using pyqt4 and python 2.6, I am using a qcombobox to provide a list of options. I am having problems with using the selected option. I have been able to use a signal to trigger a method when the option is selected, but the problem is that when the user clicks run, the contents of several of these comboboxes need to be taken into account. So basically I need to get the selected contents of a combobox as a string. Thus far I have only been able use this:
print combobox1.currentText()
to get this:
PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'Test Selection2')
when all I really want is the 'Test Selection' bit, any ideas?
My combo box was made like this:
combobox1 = qt.QComboBox()
combobox1.addItems(['Test Selection1', 'Test Selection2'])
mainLayout.addWidget(combobox1, 0, 0)

You can convert the QString type to python string by just using the str
function. Assuming you are not using any Unicode characters you can get a python
string as below:
text = str(combobox1.currentText())
If you are using any unicode characters, you can do:
text = unicode(combobox1.currentText())

Getting the Text of ComboBox when the item is changed
self.ui.comboBox.activated.connect(self.pass_Net_Adap)
def pass_Net_Adap(self):
print str(self.ui.comboBox.currentText())

PyQt4 can be forced to use a new API in which QString is automatically converted to and from a Python object:
import sip
sip.setapi('QString', 2)
With this API, QtCore.QString class is no longer available and self.ui.comboBox.currentText() will return a Python string or unicode object.
See Selecting Incompatible APIs from the doc.

If you want the text value of a QString object you can use the __str__ property, like this:
>>> a = QtCore.QString("Happy Happy, Joy Joy!")
>>> a
PyQt4.QtCore.QString(u'Happy Happy, Joy Joy!')
>>> a.__str__()
u'Happy Happy, Joy Joy!'
Hope that helps.