anthonyberet wrote: > I know this touches on immutability etc, but I can't find string methods > to return the first 3 characters, and then the last 2 characters, which > I could concatenate with newchar to make a new string. > > I know the string methods are there, but can't find it in any docs, and > just want to check the syntax, unless there is an easier way.
Strings [1] are sequences [2], and therefore support slicing, which is what you are looking for. [1] http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html [2] http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
