On Sep 8, 11:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi; > > I'm trying to insert XYZ before a keyword in a string. The first and > the last occurence of hello in the string t1 (t1="hello world hello. > hello \nwhy world hello") are keywords. So after the insertion of XYZ > in this string, the result should be t1 = "XYZhello world hello. hello > \nwhy world XYZhello" > > The python doesn't supports t1[keyword_index]="XYZhello" (string > object assignment is not supported). How do I get to this problem? Any > sugguestions?
Yet another solution using re >>> t1 = 'hello world hello. hello. \nwhy world hello' >>> import re >>> l1 = re.split('hello', t1) >>> l1[0] = 'XYZ' + l1[0] >>> l1[-2] += 'XYZ' >>> 'hello'.join(l1) 'XYZhello world hello. hello. \nwhy world XYZhello' >>> If there are less than two 'hello', you'll get exception and needs special handling. Karthik > > -a.m. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list