How do I get a slice of a string held in a tuple?
Lorenzo
lorenzo at excitement.com
Sun Apr 8 13:29:06 EDT 2007
In article <1176050876.835238.68560 at d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
"mensanator at aol.com" <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
> On Apr 8, 11:34?am, Lorenzo Thurman <lore... at diespammerhethurmans.com>
> wrote:
> > I have tuple which hold a string in tup[0]. I want to get a slice of
> > that string. I thought I would do something like:
> > tup[0][start:end]
> > But this fails.
>
> No, it doesn't.
>
> >>> a = ('abcdefg','hijkl')
> >>> a[0]
> 'abcdefg'
> >>> a[0][1:2]
> 'b'
>
>
> > How do I go about it?
>
> Do it correctly. Post your actual example that fails
> and the related error message. Possibnly your indexes
> were out of range.
>
> > I googled this and found a couple
> > of references, but no solution.
>
> Well, there wouldn't be a solution to a non-existent
> problem, would there?
>
> > TIA
Here's the code:
elapsedTime = mydata[1]
index = elapsedTime.find("real")
# the index will have a value 0f 110
totaltime = elapsedTime[index:]
# instead of this returning a shortened html string, i only
# get the left angle bracket '<'
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