What's correct Python syntax?

[Igor Korot]

Hi, Rustom,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 3:32:24 PM UTC+5:30, Igor Korot wrote:
>> Hi, Rustom,
>
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Rustom Mody  wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:55:00 PM UTC+5:30, Igor Korot wrote:
>> >> What if I want field 2 and field 3? ("seq 200" and "length 30")
>> > Wee you did say:
>> >> I'm interesred in only one element, so why should care about everything else?
>> > So its not clear what you want!
>
>> Sorry, I thought it would be easier to ask this way. Guess not.
>
>> I am actually looking for a way to get a result from split which is
>> sliced the way I want. Like in my example above.
>> I mean I can probably make more variable by creating a tuple, but why?
>> What is the purpose if I want only couple elements out of split.
>> Doing it Perl way does not help:
>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK\Desktop\winpdb>python
>> Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
>> (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> test = "I,like,my,chocolate"
>> >>> print test.split(',')[2,3]
>
> You want this?
>
>>>> test = "I,like,my,chocolate"
>>>> test.split(',')
> ['I', 'like', 'my', 'chocolate']
>>>> test.split(',')[2:4]
> ['my', 'chocolate']

Yup, thats it.
Now 2 and 4 - it's a starting point and ending point, right?

Thank you.
>
>
>> Well is there a Python way to do what I want?
>
>
> Well I for one still dont get what you want!!
>
> Heres a python one-liner using regexps
>>>> r=r'(.*) +> +(.*):.*length (\d*)'
>>>> re.findall(r,data)
> [('192.168.1.6', '192.168.1.7', '30')]
>
> Note: I am NOT suggesting you use regexps. Just that they will do what you want if you are so inclined
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