Hello,
I am hoping that this list is a good place to ask this question.I am
still fairly new to python, but find it to be a great scripting
language.Here is my issue:
I am attempting to utilize a function to receive any sequence of letter
characters and return to me the next value in alphabetic order e.g. send
in "abc" get back "abd".I found a function on StackExchange (Rosenfield,
A 1995) that seems to work well enough (I think):
def next(s):
strip_zs = s.rstrip('z')
if strip_zs:
return strip_zs[:-1] + chr(ord(strip_zs[-1]) + 1) + 'a' * (len(s) -
len(strip_zs))
else:
return 'a' * (len(s) + 1)
I have found this function works well if I call it directly with a
string enclosed in quotes:
returnValue = next("abc")
However, if I call the function with a variable populated from a value I
obtain from an array[] it fails returning only ^K
Unfortunately, because I don't fully understand this next function I
can't really interpret the error.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time,
Derek
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