Codewars 7 kyu Remove anchor from URL

7 kyu Remove anchor from URL
https://www.codewars.com/kata/51f2b4448cadf20ed0000386/train/python
Complete the function/method so that it returns the url with anything after the anchor (#) removed.

Verbalization

1. If there is no #, return url (use if "#" in url: )
2. Search the index number of #. (use url.index(#))
3. Select words from first index to one before index of # (use[0:i(ndex of #)])

Code

def remove_url_anchor(url):
    if "#" in url: 
        return url[0:url.index("#")]
    else:
        return url

Reference

• How to remove all characters after a specific character in python?
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/904746/how-to-remove-all-characters-after-a-specific-character-in-python
• Check if a word is in a string in Python
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5319922/check-if-a-word-is-in-a-string-in-python

#other solution

def remove_url_anchor(url):
  return url.split('#')[0]