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Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:49:06 -0600
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Subject: Re: Need a specific sort of string modification. Can someone help?
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On 01/05/13 11:24, Tim Chase wrote:
>  I don't know how this version times out:
>
>     import re
>     r = re.compile(r"[-+](\d+)([^-+]*)")
>     def modify(m):
>         result = m.group(2)[int(m.group(1)):]
>         return result

Doh, I intended to change this after testing, making it just

   returm m.group(2)[int(m.group(1)):]

rather than expending an intermediate variable I used for testing

-tkc