"Andre Roberge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > There's a tongue-in-cheek quote that I really like: > "Sometimes you have a programming problem and it seems like the best > solution is to use regular expressions; now you have two problems."
+1 -- There are some things re is good for, but mainly it's good motivation to just do it in python... > n = 'xb1jyzqnd1eenkokqnhep6vp692qi9tmag3owzqw0sdq3zjf' > length = len(n) > o = [] > for i in range(0, length, 3): > o.append(n[i:i+3]) > Or as a one-liner... o = [ n[ii:ii+3] for ii in range(0,len(n),3) ] Emile _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
