remove last 76 letters from string

Iain King iainking at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 09:58:13 EDT 2009


On Aug 6, 11:34 am, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Iain King wrote:
> >>      print >>nucleotides, seq[-76]
>
> >>      last_part = line.rstrip()[-76 : ]
>
> > You all mean:   seq[:-76]   , right? (assuming you've already stripped
> > any junk off the end of the string)
>
> The OP said "cut out the last 76 letters (nucleotides) from each
> individual sequence and send them to a new txt file with a similar
> format.", ie extract the last 76 letters (in the same format) to a file.

So he did.  Excuse me while I go eat my other foot.



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