"james <at> hal-pc.org" wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Max Erickson wrote: >>>>the entire 26 character string from site A, but [1] how do i >>>>crop it to 10 characters. >> >> strings are slicable: > > The only reason i've gotten this far is a basic understanding of > syntax and programming in general :) > care to enlighten me a little on how to do that? I did. If you have some text in VARIABLE, and do something like: substring=VARIABLE[:10], substring will be the first 10 characters of VARIABLE. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
