Re: [Tutor] Question about strings

2010-08-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Daniel" wrote *1)s = 'colorless' 2)ss = s[:4] + 'u' + s[4:] *I do not understand something. So on the second line, the slicing lasts from the start of the s string to the forth character. Correct, slices include the first index but not the last. does the counting start? 0 or 1? It start

Re: [Tutor] Question about strings

2010-08-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Hey email in plain text in the future, HTML is not kind to mobile screens and in general you should plaintext reply to tech lists. All list indices start from 0. But you don't get the last value. So slice[1:5] would skip the first char and then include the next 3. It's the same as range. Range(

[Tutor] Question about strings

2010-08-09 Thread Daniel
Hi, I'm trying to solve an exercise, a beginners one but I have a question. So the exercise sounds like this: Define a string s = ’colorless’. Write a Python statement that changes this to ’colour- less’, using only the slice and concatenation operations. So I did wrote this: *1)s = 'colorless'