[Tutor] lil help please - updated (fwd)

[Chris or Leslie Smith]

| The logic is so good so far. However, How do we move the (...) in |H
| to end of |R and before next |H

Maybe you are thinking too literally about the moving of the parenthetical item from the |H to the end of the |R.  Let's say you have the 3 chunks of information in variables h, f, and r:

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>>> h='This (you see) is the header.'
>>> f='The Book'
>>> r='cool'
###

If you could break h apart into 3 pieces, the "This ", the "(you see)", and " is the header." and call them h1, h2, and h3 then you could add h1 and h3 back together (that's your new value of h) and add h2 to r as your new r:

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>>> h1='This '
>>> h2='(you see)'
>>> h3=' is the header'
>>> h=h1+h3
>>> r=r+'\n'+h2  #the \n puts the parenthetical on a new line
>>> print h
This  is the header
>>> print r
cool
(you see)
###

(There's a double space left over at the place where the h1 and h3 were joined which is something you might want to fix before you add them back together. The string method ".strip() is nice for getting rid of leading and trailing space on a string. Here's an example:

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>>> print s
   space before and after is gone      
>>> print s.strip()
space before and after is gone
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)

What would help maintain the spirit of the tutor list is if you would ask specific questions about problems that you are having getting the script to do what you you want or clarifications about how something is suppose to work. Right now you have a task that is defined but you are asking general questions about designing the program, not specific questions about the *python* related problems. 

Rather than sending or posting the script you have, why not just post the specific problems you are running into? 

Thanks,
/c