Angus,I don't think you're at fault but you must keep in mind that a lot of
people that read this list get a lot of the same questions repeatedly, only
worded slightly differently.
I also didn't notice that you used slicing in your first message, and in
your second message I just saw that you quote
Robert Berman wrote:
>A nifty 'notation like "[::-1]"' is an example of something called
>slicing which you will find very well explained in 6.1 of CORE PYTHON
>PROGRAMMING. I thought that you had reviewed this since it precedes the
>questions in Chapter 6. It is a very handy tool for not only s
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:55 +0100, Angus Rodgers wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:57:21 -0400, Robert Berman
> wrote:
>
> >I think you are looking for a complex solution.
>
> Hardly.
In my opinion your code w was overly complex for what you were
attempting to do. I would not be so presumptuous
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:57:21 -0400, Robert Berman
wrote:
>I think you are looking for a complex solution.
Hardly.
>How about the following example:
>
>
>In [31]: s1='abcdeefghijkl' #find last 'e'
>
>In [32]: s2=s1[::-1]#reverses s1
>
>In [33]: j=s2.find('e') #finds first 'e' in reversed st
I think you are looking for a complex solution.
How about the following example:
In [31]: s1='abcdeefghijkl' #find last 'e'
In [32]: s2=s1[::-1]#reverses s1
In [33]: j=s2.find('e') #finds first 'e' in reversed string
In [36]: ind=len(s1)-j-1 #index into s1 where last occurrence of 'e' i
