Brian Beck wrote: > anthonyberet wrote: >>I know this touches on immutability etc, but I can't find string methods >>to return the first 3 characters, and then the last 2 characters, which >>I could concatenate with newchar to make a new string. > > As tiissa said, you want slicing: > > py> s = "foobar" > py> s[:3] > 'foo' > py> s[:3] + "B" + s[4:] > 'fooBar'
And if that's too ugly for you and you think you need to do this operation a lot, just define a function to do it for you based on the index value and string that you pass in to it. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
