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Re: Remove unwanted characters from column

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Date 2014-01-28 02:19 +1100
Subject Re: Remove unwanted characters from column
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.6045.1390836009.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:03 AM,  <matt.s.marotta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 27 January 2014 09:57:32 UTC-5, Chris Angelico  wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:23 AM,  <matt.s.marotta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If the farmID < 10:
>> > remove one character from the address column
>> > Elif farmID > 10:
>> > remove two characters from the address column
>>
>> What if farmID == 10?
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Ok, sorry this is how it should be.
>
> If the FarmID < 10:
> remove one character from the address column
>
> If the FarmID > 9:
> remove two characters from the address column
>
> My issue is I can't figure out what statement to use to define FarmID.

More commonly, that would be written as

if farmID < 10:
    # remove one character
else:
    # remove two characters

Though this still suffers from the limitation of not handling 100 or
1000, so you might want to look at len(str(farmID)) instead.

ChrisA

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Remove unwanted characters from column matt.s.marotta@gmail.com - 2014-01-26 19:49 -0800
  Re:Remove unwanted characters from column Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-27 00:24 -0500
    Re: Remove unwanted characters from column matt.s.marotta@gmail.com - 2014-01-27 05:32 -0800
      Re: Remove unwanted characters from column Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-27 13:54 +0000
        Re: Remove unwanted characters from column matt.s.marotta@gmail.com - 2014-01-27 06:23 -0800
          Re: Remove unwanted characters from column Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-27 14:34 +0000
          Re: Remove unwanted characters from column Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-28 01:57 +1100
            Re: Remove unwanted characters from column matt.s.marotta@gmail.com - 2014-01-27 07:03 -0800
              Re: Remove unwanted characters from column Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-28 02:19 +1100
  Re: Remove unwanted characters from column Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 15:22 +0000

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