Re: [Tutor] Indexing a List of Strings

2011-05-18 Thread spawgi
Agreed that your original sequences are 1000 char long. But it helps to understand the problem better if you can give examples with smaller strings. Please can you post smaller examples? This will also help you test your code on your own inputs. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Spyros Charonis wro

Re: [Tutor] Indexing a List of Strings

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Gauld
"Spyros Charonis" wrote for item in finalmotifs: for line in my_list: if item in line: print line.index(item) But this only returns a single number (e.g 119), which is the index at which my sequence begins. Is it possible to get a pair of indices that indicate beginnin

[Tutor] Indexing a List of Strings

2011-05-17 Thread Spyros Charonis
Greetings Python List, I have a motif sequence (a list of characters e.g. 'EAWLGHEYLHAMKGLLC') whose index I would like to return. The list contains 20 strings, each of which is close to 1000 characters long making it far too cumbersome to display an example. I would like to know if there is a way