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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:19:59 +1100
Subject: Re: Remove unwanted characters from column
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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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