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Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string

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Peter Otten wrote:

>>>> def mid(s, n):
> ...     shave = len(s) - n
> ...     if shave > 0:
              shave += len(s) % 2
> ...         shave //= 2
> ...         s = s[shave:shave+n]
> ...     return s

> Not exactly the same results as your implementation though.

The extra line should fix that, but it looks, err -- odd.

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Extract the middle N chars of a string Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 01:47 +1000
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 10:34 -0600
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-05-18 18:41 +0200
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-05-18 18:54 +0200
    Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 11:37 +1000
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-05-18 18:00 +0100
    Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 11:34 +1000
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-05-18 17:28 -0400
    Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 11:03 +1000
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 21:35 +0000
    Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-19 10:48 +1000
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-18 23:17 -0500
  Re: Extract the middle N chars of a string boB Stepp <robertvstepp@gmail.com> - 2016-05-20 23:00 -0500

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