[Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Vineeth Rakesh
Hello all, How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 = welcome to the world if i want to return the position of the first occurrence of o how to do it? Thanks Vin ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Luke Paireepinart
You can do it with any iterator Astr.index('o') I'm not sure what happens when there are multiple instances of 'o' though, check the docs on index. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Vineeth Rakesh vineethrak...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, How to return the position of a

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Christian Witts
On 23/07/2010 15:22, Vineeth Rakesh wrote: Hello all, How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 = welcome to the world if i want to return the position of the first occurrence of o how to do it? Thanks Vin ___ Tutor

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:22:54 pm Vineeth Rakesh wrote: Hello all, How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 = welcome to the world if i want to return the position of the first occurrence of o how to do it? str1.find(o) will return the index of the first o, or -1

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/07/2010 16:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:22:54 pm Vineeth Rakesh wrote: Hello all, How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 = welcome to the world if i want to return the position of the first occurrence of o how to do it? str1.find(o)

Re: [Tutor] position of an element in list:

2010-07-23 Thread Alan Gauld
Vineeth Rakesh vineethrak...@gmail.com wrote How to return the position of a character in a string. Say I have str1 = welcome to the world if i want to return the position of the first occurrence of o how to do it? Others have answered but don't forget Python's help() facility. help(str)