RE: String slices work only for first string character ?

2008-12-16 Thread Barak, Ron
Thanks to all who pointed my wrong understanding of how string slices are defined. Bye, Ron. From: Barak, Ron [mailto:ron.ba...@lsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 15:35 To: python-list@python.org Subject: String slices work only for first string character ?

RE: String slices work only for first string character ?

2008-12-16 Thread Barak, Ron
ect: Re: String slices work only for first string character ? On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:35:27 + "Barak, Ron" wrote: > Can any one explain why the following string slice works only for the first > character, but not for any other ? I think that you need to reread the docs o

Re: String slices work only for first string character ?

2008-12-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:35:27 + "Barak, Ron" wrote: > Can any one explain why the following string slice works only for the first > character, but not for any other ? I think that you need to reread the docs on slices. > print "|"+data[0:1]+"|" > print "|"+data[1:1]+"|" If you want the seco

Re: String slices work only for first string character ?

2008-12-16 Thread Tim Chase
Can any one explain why the following string slice works only for the first character, but not for any other ? $ cat /tmp/tmp.py #!/usr/bin/env python data = 'F0023209006-0101' print data print "|"+data[0:1]+"|" print "|"+data[1:1]+"|" print "|"+data[2:1]+"|" $ python `cygpath -w /tmp/tmp.py`