Newbie question

[koutoo at hotmail.com]

On Sep 18, 1:42 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <Sh... at Milochik.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, kou... at hotmail.com <kou... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sep 18, 1:31 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <Sh... at Milochik.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/18/07, kou... at hotmail.com <kou... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > If I have a file name: AVC1030708.14.  How do I strip out certain
> > > > characters from the file name?  I am so used to using MID, LEFT, and
> > > > RIGHT functions, that I have no idea how to do this in python?  I have
> > > > had trouble as well with most newbies on finding the help.  But I have
> > > > used the command line built in help, but with no luck.  Thanks.
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> > > > Kou
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> > > Do you want to strip out specific characters, characters in specific
> > > positions, or characters matching certain patterns?
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> > Yes, I want specific characters in specific positions.
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> Try this:
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> newString = oldString[0:3] + oldString[5:10]
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> Some other quick examples:
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> >>> test = "this is a test"
> >>> test
> 'this is a test'
> >>> fred = test[:3] + test[9:]
> >>> fred
> 'thi test'
> >>> test[0:5]
> 'this '
> >>> test[:5]
> 'this '
> >>> test[4:]
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> ' is a test'- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

I see.  It's so hard to imagine the world of python than from VB.
It's like looking at VB is in 2 dimensions, where with Python, it's
more 3D.  The code is so simple, yet it's hard for me to envision how
to do something so simple.  I guess it's because the rules or the way
of looking at things in Python, things can be stripped down to the
bare bones and in so many ways.  Thanks.

Kou