Will McGugan wrote: > Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > > >>>I would actualy use the following for this particular case.. >>> >>>text = line[n:n+1] or 'nothing' >> >> >>... and you would get either a list of one element or a string ... >>I think you wanted to write : >> >>text = (line[n:n+1] or ['nothing'])[0] > > > I was assuming that 'line' would be a string, not a list. Seems more > likely give the name and context. > I'd say it's much more likely that line is a list of lines, since it seems improbable that absence of a character should cause a value of "nothing" to be required.
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