On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 9:28 AM, <bruceg113...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a string that contains 10 million characters. > > The string is formatted as: > > "0000001 : some hexadecimal text ... \n > 0000002 : some hexadecimal text ... \n > 0000003 : some hexadecimal text ... \n > ... > 0100000 : some hexadecimal text ... \n > 0100001 : some hexadecimal text ... \n" > > and I need the string to look like: > > "some hexadecimal text ... \n > some hexadecimal text ... \n > some hexadecimal text ... \n > ... > some hexadecimal text ... \n > some hexadecimal text ... \n" > > I can split the string at the ":" then iterate through the list removing the > first 8 characters then convert back to a string. This method works, but it > takes too long to execute. > > Any tricks to remove the first n characters of each line in a string faster? > slicing might be faster than searching for :
Do you need to do this all at once? If not, use a generator > Thanks, > Bruce > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
