Here's a puzzle...

[Erik Max Francis]

TheDustbustr wrote:

> Unless my logic is flawed, this should return 'PRIVMSG':
> 
> sender='Angel'
> print data[len(sender)+2:string.find(data[len(sender)+2:],' ')]
> 
> It prints '' (an empty string).  Is my logic flawed, or does Python
> dislike a
> string splice determined by a function?

Your logic is flawed.  Break the splice limits into pieces:

max at oxygen:~% python
Python 2.0 (#2, Apr  4 2001, 19:28:30) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import string
>>> sender='Angel'
>>> data=':Angel PRIVMSG Wiz :here is my message!'
>>> data[len(sender)+2:string.find(data[len(sender)+2:],' ')]
''
>>> len(sender)+2
7
>>> string.find(data[len(sender)+2:],' ')
7


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