On Feb 25, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > consider the following working loop where Packet is a subclass of > list, with Packet.insert(index, iterable) inserting each item in > iterable into Packet at consecutive indexes starting at index. > > i=0 > while(i<len(packet)-4): > if packet[i:i+5]==Packet("01110"): > packet.insert(i, "01111") > i+=10 #skip the 5 bits inserted, and skip the 5 bits just > checked bc overlap should not trigger insertion > else: i+=1 > > is there a way to do this more elegantly? seems like a big kludge.
Unless I missed something, this is a simple string replacement: ''.join(packet).replace('01110', '0111001111') George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list