On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > I then take row 2 and use it to make a mapping of header-name to a > slice-object for slicing the subsequent strings: > > slice(i.start(), i.end()) > > print("EmpID = %s" % row[header_map["EMPID"]].strip()) > print("Name = %s" % row[header_map["NAME"]].strip()) > > which I presume uses string indexing under the hood.
Yes, it's definitely going to be indexing. If strings were represented internally in UTF-8, each of those calls would need to scan from the beginning of the string, counting and discarding characters until it finds the place to start, then counting and retaining characters until it finds the place to stop. Definite example of what I'm looking for, thanks! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list