I want SIMBAD to treat the dash(hyphen) as a space

Question

I have a code using astroquery.Simbad to query star names. However Simbad working with names like "LP 944-20". However, the data contains names as "LP-944-20". How can i make code to ignore that first dash(hyphen)?

My code:

from astroquery.simbad import Simbad
result_table = Simbad.query_object("LP-944-20", wildcard=True)
print(result_table)

Would the inputs always have the form of `X-Y-Z`? Or, could there be other formats as well? — Tim Biegeleisen, Jan 27 '22 at 01:52
If there are more than 1 words, yes it has the form "X-Y" or "X-Y-Z". Otherwise, just "X" — Ege Tunç, Jan 27 '22 at 03:55
Yes. I want to ignore just the first hyphen. "X-Y" as "X Y" or "X-Y-Z" as "X Y-Z" — Ege Tunç, Jan 27 '22 at 04:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '22 at 04:39

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One simple approach would be to just replace the first hyphen with space:

inp = ["LP-944-20", "944-20", "20"]
output = [x.replace("-", " ", 1) for x in inp]
print(output)  # ['LP 944-20', '944 20', '20']

answered Jan 27 '22 at 04:39

Tim Biegeleisen

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I want SIMBAD to treat the dash(hyphen) as a space

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