rearrange text

[Roel Schroeven]

Daniel Skinner wrote:
> If I have the following text
> 
> var = '1,2,3,4'
> 
> and I want to use the comma as a field delimeter and rearrange the
> fields to read
> 
> '1,3,2,4'
> 
> How would I accomplish this in python?

I take it you want to swap the second and the third element? That can be
accomplished by splitting into a list of fields, swap the second and
third element, join the fields back to a string:

 >>> var  = '1,2,3,4'
 >>> fields = var.split(',')
 >>> fields
 ['1', '2', '3', '4']
 >>> fields[1], fields[2] = fields[2], fields[1]
 >>> fields
 ['1', '3', '2', '4']
 >>> newvar = ','.join(fields)
 >>> newvar
 '1,3,2,4'


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"Codito ergo sum"
Roel Schroeven