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

[Nick Mellor]

Hi Sia,

Find a multi-digit method in this version:

from string import maketrans
from itertools import takewhile

def is_digit(s): return s.isdigit()

class redux:

    def __init__(self):
       intab = '+-'
       outtab = '  '
       self.trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab)


    def reduce_plusminus(self, s):
        list_form = [r[int(r[0]) + 1:] if r[0].isdigit() else r
                    for r
                    in s.translate(self.trantab).split()]
        return ''.join(list_form)

    def reduce_plusminus_multi_digit(self, s):
        spl = s.translate(self.trantab).split()
        digits = [list(takewhile(is_digit, r))
                   for r
                   in spl]
        numbers = [int(''.join(r)) if r else 0
                   for r
                    in digits]
        skips = [len(dig) + num for dig, num in zip(digits, numbers)]
        return ''.join([s[r:] for r, s in zip(skips, spl)])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = redux()
    print p.reduce_plusminus(".+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG")
    print p.reduce_plusminus("tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag")
    print 'multi-digit...'
    print p.reduce_plusminus_multi_digit(".+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG")
    print p.reduce_plusminus_multi_digit(".+12ACGACGACGACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG")


HTH,

Nick

On Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:35:26 UTC+11, Sia  wrote:
> I have strings such as:
> 
> 
> 
> tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag
> 
> or
> 
> .+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG
> 
> 
> 
> The plus and minus signs are always followed by a number (say, i). I want python to find each single plus or minus, remove the sign, the number after it and remove i characters after that. So the two strings above become:
> 
> 
> 
> tA..,
> 
> and
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> How can I do that?
> 
> Thanks.