Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread Sandhya Prabhakaran
Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) numer 123 To get the alphabetic part, I could do alpha=str.replace('123','') alpha ACTGAAC But when I give alpha=str.replace(numer,'') Traceback

RE: Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread Andreas Tawn
Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) numer 123 To get the alphabetic part, I could do alpha=str.replace('123','') alpha ACTGAAC But when I give

Re: Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread Peter Brett
Sandhya Prabhakaran sandhyaprabhaka...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) numer 123 To get the alphabetic part, I could do alpha=str.replace('123','') alpha

Re: Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread MRAB
Sandhya Prabhakaran wrote: Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) numer 123 [snip] I get: ['123'] which is a _list_ of the strings found. --

Re: Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Sandhya Prabhakaransandhyaprabhaka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need to extract the numeric part from the alphabetic part which I did using numer=re.findall(r'\d+',str) numer 123 The docs for re.findall say that it returns

Re: Extract the numeric and alphabetic part from an alphanumeric string

2009-08-03 Thread Sandhya Prabhakaran
Oh yes indeed! Now that works :D Thanks a lot !! 2009/8/3 Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.comkushal.kumaran%2bpyt...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Sandhya Prabhakaransandhyaprabhaka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a string as str='123ACTGAAC'. I need