On Feb 25, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> consider the following working loop where Packet is a subclass of
> list, with Packet.insert(index, iterable) inserting each item in
> iterable into Packet at consecutive indexes starting at index.
>
> i=0
> while(i<len(packet)-4):
> if packet[i:i+5]==Packet("01110"):
> packet.insert(i, "01111")
> i+=10 #skip the 5 bits inserted, and skip the 5 bits just
> checked bc overlap should not trigger insertion
> else: i+=1
>
> is there a way to do this more elegantly? seems like a big kludge.
Unless I missed something, this is a simple string replacement:
''.join(packet).replace('01110', '0111001111')
George
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