If I have a string for a file name such that I want to find the number of characters to the left of the dot, how can that be done?
I did it this way: x = "text12345.txt" dot = x.find('.') print dot Was curious to see what method others would use - helps me learn. I guess I was most curious to see if it could be done in one line. And, how would a char count be done with no dot -- like if the string were "textstringwithoutdot" or "no dot in text string"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list