[Beds] python question

[Lee Larcombe]

Hi

Thanks for your solution. Steve (Stephen Newey) also supplied an answer 
that you might be interested in - below

\*quoted message pasted below*\
A string in Python is an immutable list, so you can treat it just like 
one, eg:

for char in string:
    print char

Or...

print string[1:3]

To make it a regular list you could...

array = []
for char in string: array.append(char)

I'm pretty sure there's a better way of doing that, just don't recall 
it right now :)

Hope that helps
Steve

On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 08:48  pm, Darren Parkinson wrote:

>
> I think you can do this in the following way:
>
> string = 'abcde'
> items = [ word[0] for word in string ]
> print items
> print items[0]
>
> Is this what you mean?  I've just downloaded it too so not sure if this
> is the right answer, but it seems to work...  Certainly prints ['a',
> 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] and a respectively...  Would seem that this is
> unexpected functionality since this is supposed to take the first 
> letter
> of each word... (I was pretty lucky with google :))
>
> Regards,
> Darren.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Larcombe [mailto:lee at larcombe.uk-internet.org.uk]
> Sent: 22 March 2005 20:13
> To: beds at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Beds] python question
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am trying to learn python, and i have hit a problem I can't find a
> solution for.
>
> I want to split a string into a list - ie
>
> string = 'abcde'
>
> would become
>
> list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
>
> I can do this in perl by using:
>
> @array= unpack("A1" x length($string), $string);
>
> Can anyone tell me a python way of doing this???
>
> I know python could use string.split(";") to split a string on a
> delimiter (; in this case) but there doesn't seem a way to use split
> without a delimiting character
>
> I can't believe this is impossible - please help!!!
>
> Lee.
>
>
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