Re: String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

2006-01-11 Thread bonono
Nico Grubert wrote: This sounds like a homework problem. You might try splitting the name at the e's, check the length of the resulting list and do that many nested loops. This was my idea too but I am wondering if there are any scripts for tasks like this. Nico def combine_lol(seq):

String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

2006-01-10 Thread Nico Grubert
Hi there, I have a string 'Michèle' that represents the firstname of a person. What's the best way to get all possible versions of this name if I consider to use these characters: e, è, é, ê I'd like to have a function that returns a list of the following names when passing 'Michèle' as

Re: String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Gercken
This sounds like a homework problem. You might try splitting the name at the e's, check the length of the resulting list and do that many nested loops. On 1/10/06, Nico Grubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have a string 'Michèle' that represents the firstname of a person. What's the

Re: String question - find all possible versions of a person's firstname

2006-01-10 Thread Nico Grubert
This sounds like a homework problem. You might try splitting the name at the e's, check the length of the resulting list and do that many nested loops. This was my idea too but I am wondering if there are any scripts for tasks like this. Nico --