On 2 Mar 2005 07:36:48 -0800, Daniel Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I have the following text
>
> var = '1,2,3,4'
>
> and I want to use the comma as a field delimeter
That bit's easy:
C:\WINNT\system32>python
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> var = '1,2,3,4'
>>> split_var = var.split(',')
>>> split_var
['1', '2', '3', '4']
> and rearrange the
> fields to read
>
> '1,3,2,4'
I don't really understand this rearrangement, but I'll do it the dumb way:
>>> rearranged_var = split_var[0], split_var[2], split_var[1], split_var[3]
>>> rearranged_var
('1', '3', '2', '4')
Then you can join it all up again like so:
>>> ','.join(rearranged_var)
'1,3,2,4'
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Simon B,
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