[Tutor] conditionals with slicing not seeming to work

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Rob Stevenson" <rob.rstevenson at gmail.com> wrote
> 
>> I'm working at a certain website's puzzles using
>> python in order to learn the language,
> 
> OK, Then I'll add some other comments
> 
>> the intention of this snippet is to only print slices where 
>> character 1 is
>> lower case, 2-4 and 6-8 are upper.  The logic here looks right to a 
>> VB eye.
> 
> s="""kKjyaqbooOlNkAddgAazFlgKLjlXDGtlv....
>> etc...
> 
>> h = range(len(s)-9)
>> for i in h:
> 
> more conventionally in python to just say
> 
> for i in range(len(s)-9)
> 
>>    j=s[i:i+8]
>>    if j[0].islower():
>>        if j[1:3].isupper():
>>          if j[5:7].isupper():
> 
> And this would reflect the problem statement better if
> you used boolean logic
> 
> if j[0].islower() and j[1:4].isupper() and j[5:8].isupper():
>     print j
> 
> You could also do this using regular expressions if
> you want an alternative approach.
> 
> HTH,
> 

Maybe you are trying to pass python challenge #3? Better use re module
as Alan suggested, and remember, it's EXACTLY three on each side.