Greetings:
Unfortunately, my problem description was incomplete. I forgot to
include two important requirements:
1. the length of the input string is arbitrary,
2. the order of the digits must be maintained.
I could not find a way to include these requirements in a single, simple
expres
Greetings:
First of all, thanks to those who contributed suggestions.
Unfortunately, my description was incomplete.
> I am writing a function that accepts a string of decimal digits,
> calculates a checksum and returns it as a single character string.
> The first step in the calculation is to
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 17:17 -0700, Carroll, Barry wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am writing a function that accepts a string of decimal digits,
> calculates a checksum and returns it as a single character string.
> The first step in the calculation is to split the input into two
> strings: the even-
On 20/04/06, Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following code fragment does the job but seems sort of brutish and
> inelegant to me:
>
> >>>
> >>> s = '987654321'
> >>> odd = ''
> >>> for c in s[::-2]:
> ... odd = c + odd
> ...
> >>>
String slicing will actually produce stri
