I know that a list can be joined to make one long string as in: x = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] print ''.join(x) Obviously this would output: 'abcd' However, what I am trying to do is simply join the first and second strings in the list, then join the third and fourth and so on. … Read more
How do I create a file-like object (same duck type as File) with the contents of a string?
I want to know if when I do something like
I want to split a string by a list of indices, where the split segments begin with one index and end before the next one.
Background: Example list: mylist = [‘abc123’, ‘def456’, ‘ghi789’] I want to retrieve an element if there’s a match for a substring, like abc Code: sub = 'abc' print any(sub in mystring for mystring in mylist) above prints True if any of the elements in the list contain the pattern. I would like to print the … Read more
I want to write a program that would take a string, let’s say "Fox", then it would display:
I have a text string that starts with a number of spaces, varying between 2 & 4.
I currently have the following code
I’m trying to avoid using so many if statements and comparisons and simply use a list, but not sure how to use it with str.startswith: