replacing substrings within strings

[Sion Arrowsmith]

amadain <mfmdevine at gmail.com> wrote:
>I was wondering if there was a nicer way to swap the first 2
>characters in a string with the 4th and 5th characters other than:
>
>darr=list("010203040506")
>aarr=darr[:2]
>barr=darr[4:6]
>darr[:2]=barr
>darr[4:6]=aarr
>result="".join(darr)

darr=list("010203040506")
darr[:2], darr[4:6] = darr[4:6], darr[:2]
result = "".join(darr)

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