"John Fouhy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 12/03/07, Alan Gilfoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My question here boils down to, "Is there a way to remove certain >> characters from a string?"
> In this case, it looks like you're after "string slicing". The > tutorial covers this; look about half-way down the page: > http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html And that will also help you extract the first 3 characters too. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor