Hi, Rustom, On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:55:00 PM UTC+5:30, Igor Korot wrote: >> >> What if I want field 2 and field 3? ("seq 200" and "length 30") > > Wee you did say: > >> I'm interesred in only one element, so why should care about everything else? > > So its not clear what you want!
Sorry, I thought it would be easier to ask this way. Guess not. I am actually looking for a way to get a result from split which is sliced the way I want. Like in my example above. I mean I can probably make more variable by creating a tuple, but why? What is the purpose if I want only couple elements out of split. Doing it Perl way does not help: C:\Documents and Settings\Igor.FORDANWORK\Desktop\winpdb>python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 15 2013, 22:43:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> test = "I,like,my,chocolate" >>> print test.split(',')[2,3] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: list indices must be integers, not tuple I can do it this way: >>> testlist = test.split(',') >>> print testlist[2] my but it will needlessly creates a list on which I will access by the index. Why? All I need is couple of values out of n-dimensional list (array). > > Do you want a one-liner? You could use a regular expression. > [You will very soon find that the world divides between the regular and the > irregular folks!] > > Or you want some other perl-ism? You need to say what... Well is there a Python way to do what I want? I mention Perl only because I'm familiar with the language and this is easy in it to do that. Thank you. > > Or maybe you just want to use scapy instead of tcpdump? > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list