find sublist inside list

[mzdude]

On May 4, 4:54 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:41 -0300, mzdude <jsa... at cox.net> escribió:
>
> > substring isn't limited to 0..255
> >>>> substring = "\0x%d\0x%d" % (257,257)
> >>>> 'acaccgac'.replace("ac", substring)
> > '\x00x257\x00x257\x00x257\x00x257cg\x00x257\x00x257'
>
> This isn't what you think it is. Look carefully:
>
> py> substring = "\0x%d\0x%d" % (257,257)
> py> len(substring)
> 10
> py> list(substring)
> ['\x00', 'x', '2', '5', '7', '\x00', 'x', '2', '5', '7']
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

OOPS. My bad. But I'm not going to give up.

l = ['a','b','c','a','c']
us = unicode("".join(l))
substr = unichr(257) + unichr(257)
us = us.replace(u'ac',substr)
print len(us)
print list(us)


output is
>>>
5
[u'a', u'b', u'c', u'\u0101', u'\u0101']