How do I parse this ? regexp ?

[Andrew Dalke]

serpent17 at gmail.com wrote:

> Thank you, it works, but I guess not all the way:

> but I need to remove the first - between 18:20:42 and 0.024329 but not
> the others.

Read the documentation for the string methods.
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html


  replace(old, new[, count])
    Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old
    replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the
    first count occurrences are replaced.

in your case

   x = x.replace('-',' ', 1)

				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com