Re: [Tutor] STRING PROC

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Gauld
wrote a.partition('<') ('', '<', 'NAME') Ooh! A new string method for me. I've never notioced partition before. Thanks for posting. Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.pyth

Re: [Tutor] STRING PROC

2011-05-20 Thread spawgi
You can also try this >>> a = '>> a '>> a.partition('<') ('', '<', 'NAME') >>> splitstring = a.partition('<') >>> splitstring ('', '<', 'NAME') >>> splitstring[0] '' >>> splitstring[1] '<' >>> splitstring[2] 'NAME' I guess you can use this tuple. Hope this helps. Thanks and Regards, Sumod On F

Re: [Tutor] STRING PROC

2011-05-20 Thread Alan Gauld
"Spyros Charonis" wrote A quick string processing query. If I have an entry in a list such as ['>NAME\n'], is there a way to split it into two separate lines: NAME Yes if you know where the linebreak will be. s = ">NAME\n" twolines = [s[0],s[1:]] # list of two strings for line in tw