String question

[Bjorn Pettersen]

theWord = text[start:start+len(seek)]

-b

Dennis Gurnick wrote:
> 
> Does Python(1.6) have built-in string functions for trimming or extracting
> portion of strings?
> 
> I would like to do the following
> 
> (prototype)
> text = "here is some text"
> seek = "is"
> start = string.find( text, seek )
> theWord = text.grabxxxxx( start, len(seek ) )
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dennis
> 
> P.S.  I've read the online docs, and I've seen that it is possible if you
> are taking a known value (i.e. theWord = text[100:])  ... simply stuck on
> semantics.
> 
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