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Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help?

References <e480480d-f3b4-4491-969c-7d1843bf9e33@googlegroups.com> <mailman.109.1357378077.2939.python-list@python.org> <roy-564DD8.09304505012013@news.panix.com>
Date 2013-01-06 01:47 +1100
Subject Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.120.1357397255.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.109.1357378077.2939.python-list@python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> result = "".join([x[int(x[0])+1:] for x in ("0"+s).replace("-","+").split("+")])
>
> That's exceedingly clever.  But bordering on line noise.  At the very
> least, I would break it up into a couple of lines to make it easier to
> understand (plus you can print out the intermediate values to see what's
> going on):
>
> chunks = ("0"+s).replace("-","+").split("+")
> result = "".join([x[int(x[0])+1:] for x in chunks]

Sure. You can always split a one-liner to taste, doesn't much matter
where. You could split it majorly into half a dozen lines if you want,
doesn't make a lot of diff. It'll work the same way :)

ChrisA

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  Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help? Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> - 2013-01-05 11:15 +0200
  Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-05 20:27 +1100
    Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-05 09:30 -0500
      Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-06 01:47 +1100
        Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-05 10:03 -0500
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