interactive window vs. script: inconsistent behavior

[Bell, Kevin]

Oops!  Sorry about that post.  I'm pulling data from excel, and needed
to convert the object I pulled into a string before slicing.

I guess I should look (more thoroughly) before I leap.




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Subject: interactive window vs. script: inconsistent behavior

The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in
a script.  TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a
COM VARIANT

I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy.
Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script?  


>>> d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
>>> print d[0:d.find("to")-1]
5-18-05
>>> print d[d.find("to")+3:]
5-31-05
>>>




Kev


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