Oops! Sorry about that post. I'm pulling data from excel, and needed to convert the object I pulled into a string before slicing.
I guess I should look (more thoroughly) before I leap. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Kevin Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:44 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: interactive window vs. script: inconsistent behavior The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in a script. TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy. Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script? >>> d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05" >>> print d[0:d.find("to")-1] 5-18-05 >>> print d[d.find("to")+3:] 5-31-05 >>> Kev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
