Pierre Fortin added the comment:
[Thanks for the replies! I was trying to post this before seeing them.]
Major egg on face...
The more complex the code becomes, the more likely you will be burned by a
rookie mistake...
var = ''
var[0] WILL give IndexError -- Duh!
It was buried
New submission from Pierre Fortin :
var = "u2"
var.strip()[0]
Works as expected, except that it returns IndexError (instead of "u") if used
in a list comprehension -- at least, that's where I found it. Attached example
script illustrates the issue.
Call it with &qu
