In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 Here's the code: elapsedTime = mydata[1] index = elapsedTime.find("real") # the index will have a value 0f 110 totaltime = elapsedTime[index:] # instead of this returning a shortened html string, i only # get the left angle bracket '<' -- "My Break-Dancing days are over, but there's always the Funky Chicken" --The Full Monty -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list