Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the > index. Note you can't do it with a string, since that's not mutable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > How do I delete or remove values from a list del > or string You can't. Python's strings are immutables. > using the > index. > > If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do > that? del a[0:5] print a -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the > index. > > If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do > that? > > Thanks. > If you want to do it all at once : del a[1:4:2] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the > index. > > If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would > I do that? del a[0:5] Be sure to check out the relevant section of the Python tutorial. http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the > index. > > If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do > that? > > Thanks. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>> l = [

Re: Delete values from a string using the index

2007-09-26 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I delete or remove values from a list or string using the > index. > > If a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and I want to get rid of 1 -5, how would I do > that? > > Thanks. > del a[1] del a[-5] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list