On Apr 8, 11:34?am, Lorenzo Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tuple which hold a string in tup[0]. I want to get a slice of > that string. I thought I would do something like: > tup[0][start:end] > But this fails.
No, it doesn't. >>> a = ('abcdefg','hijkl') >>> a[0] 'abcdefg' >>> a[0][1:2] 'b' > How do I go about it? Do it correctly. Post your actual example that fails and the related error message. Possibnly your indexes were out of range. > I googled this and found a couple > of references, but no solution. Well, there wouldn't be a solution to a non-existent problem, would there? > TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list