Terry,
Hi, I'm the OP in question.
> the OP should simply write myString[slice(*myTuple)]
My tuples define positions in a fixed width string for parsing values.
So rather than 'unpacking' tuples, I'm using slice() to directly define
actual field positions, eg.
field_1 = slice( 4, 7 )
field_2 = slice( 7, 9 )
etc ...
This allows me to extract the field values as follows:
for line in myOpenFile:
value_1 = line[ field_1 ]
value_2 = line[ field_2 ]
etc.
IMO, this makes a common task like extracting fields very natural and
elegant.
I LOVE THIS LANGUAGE!! (to echo another recent thread in this forum)
Regards,
Malcolm
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