On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:53:56 +0100 Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a curiosity not a real problem, I want to pass from a string like > > xxaabbddee > to > xx:aa:bb:dd:ee > > so every two characters insert a ":". > At the moment I have this ugly inliner > interleaved = ':'.join(orig[x:x+2] for x in range(0, > len(orig), 2)) > > but also something like this would work > [''.join((x,y)) for x, y in zip(orig[0::2], orig[1::2])] > > any other ideas? import re s = 'xxaabbddee' m = re.compile("(..)") s1 = m.sub("\\1:", s)[:-1] w. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list