[Tutor] Splitting a string

[Alan Gauld]

"tee chwee liong" <tcl76 at hotmail.com> wrote

> i have a function which returns a string. for eg: X='101110'. 
> i want to search for 0 and highlight the location. 

I'm not sure what you mean by highlight the location. 
Is it a GUI? Are you colour coding the characters?

> i am thinking of defining X as a list. 

You shouldn't need to, you can treat the string as a 
sequence directly

indexes = [i for i, c in enumerate(X) if char == '0']

Will give you the list of indexes you need. 
How you use that to highlight the zeros will depend 
on your UI I guess.

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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