Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.109.1357378077.2939.python-list at python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> result = "".join([x[int(x[0])+1:] for x in ("0"+s).replace("-","+").split("+")])
>
> That's exceedingly clever.  But bordering on line noise.  At the very
> least, I would break it up into a couple of lines to make it easier to
> understand (plus you can print out the intermediate values to see what's
> going on):
>
> chunks = ("0"+s).replace("-","+").split("+")
> result = "".join([x[int(x[0])+1:] for x in chunks]

Sure. You can always split a one-liner to taste, doesn't much matter
where. You could split it majorly into half a dozen lines if you want,
doesn't make a lot of diff. It'll work the same way :)

ChrisA