Recently I tried to slice every element of a list of strings. First I tried:
f = open("export.xls", "r") lines = f.readlines() for line in lines: line = line[1:-5] line = line.split('\"\t\"') This went without returning any errors, but nothing was sliced or split. Next I tried: for i in range(len(lines)): lines[i] = lines[i][1:-5] lines[i] = lines[i].split('\"\t\"') This of course worked, but why didn't the first one work. Further why didn't the first one return an error? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list