Steve <zerocostprod...@gmail.com> wrote: >If there is a number in the line I want the number otherwise I want a >0 >I don't think I can use strip because the lines have no standards
What do you think strip() does? Read http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.lstrip *carefully* (help(''.lstrip) is slightly ambiguous). set(string.printable).difference(string.digits) may help. -- \S under construction -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
