[sapug] Simple Sequence Question

[Daryl Tester]

Darryl Ross wrote:

> s = '1234567812345678'
> 
> and I want to format it like:
> 
> t = '1234:5678:1234:5678'
> 
> Is there a simple slicing operation? Or do I need to do something like:
> 
> t = ''
> for i in xrange(len(s)):
>   if not i == 0 and i % 4 == 0:
>     t += ':'
>   t += s[i]

Well, it's looping and slicing:

s = '1234567812345678'
t, s = s[:4], s[4:]
while s:
    t, s = t + ':' + s[:4], s[4:]



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Regards,
  Daryl Tester, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.