Extract data from ASCII file

[Ren]

What is 'prefix' used for? I searched the docs and didn't come up with
anything that seemed appropriated.


"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.164.1077464239.27104.python-list at python.org>...
> With Python 2.3:
> 
>  >>> def splitter( line ):
> ...     line = line[9:] # skip prefix
> ...     while line:
> ...         prefix, line = line[:4],line[4:]
> ...         yield prefix[2:]+prefix[:2]
> ...
>  >>> for number in splitter( ':10000000E7280530AC00A530AD00AD0B0528AC0BE2'):
> ...     print number
> ...
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