On Feb 20, 5:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Yes you can get portions of the line by slicing:
>
> for line in open("infile"):
> if line[8:18] != line[18:28]:
> print line,
You can also name the slices, which makes the code more clear (IMO):
endda = slice(8,18)
begda = slice(18,28)
for line in open("infile"):
if line[endda] != line[begda]:
print line,
> Or you can use the struct module:
But this is the approach I'd take.
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