Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'.
I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using >>>numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) >>>numer 123 To get the alphabetic part, I could do >>>alpha=str.replace('123','') >>>alpha ACTGAAC But when I give >>>alpha=str.replace(numer,'') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: expected a character buffer object How do I blank out the initial numeric part so as to get just the alphabetic part. The string is always in the same format. Please help. Regards, Sandhya -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list