On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Sean Murphy <mhysnm1...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I suspect the offset number still starts at the beginning of the string > and counts forward or another way to look at it you are slicing from element > x to element y. If element y is less then element x, return nothing. Does > this make sense? > > I should have used: > > print a[4:6]) > > to get: > > t.t
Yep, it's start and end indices, not start and length. When you use a negative number, it counts from the back: >>> "asdf"[-1] 'f' >>> "asdf"[-2] 'd' > The 2nd part of my original question still stands. I will expand upon this a > bit more to give more context. I want to print from the beginning of the > paragraph to the end. Each paragraph ends with "\n\n\n". > > If I use "\n\n\n" in lines this does return true for the string. But I don't > have a starting position and ending position. The list method which I mention > before can be sliced by going back one element. The "in" operator just tells you whether it's there or not; strings have a .index() method that tells you where something can be found. That might be what you want here! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
