make a string a list

[Nikhil]

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Thanks,
Nikhil

[jay graves]

On May 29, 4:30 pm, Nikhil <mnik...@gmail. comwrote:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Hmmm. Can you state your problem in a different way?

I find that Python excels at string handling and I've never had to
write a pure character scanner like you are suggesting. Not to say
that you don't need it, I just think that if you give us a small
example of your data and your expected outcome, it would be easier to
help you.

[Matimus]

On May 29, 2:30 pm, Nikhil <mnik...@gmail. comwrote:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Thanks,
Nikhil

I a little confused by what you are trying to do, but:

Strings are iterable.

>>for c in "hello":

.... print "look, a letter", c
....
look, a letter h
look, a letter e
look, a letter l
look, a letter l
look, a letter o

And indexable:

>>"hello"[0]

'h'

And converting to a list is done like this:

>>list("hello ")

['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']

They also have some pretty nifty methods:

>>"hello\r\nwor ld\r\nlets\r\ns plit\r\n".split ("\r\n")

['hello', 'world', 'lets', 'split', '']

>>"hello world".index('w orld')

6

>>"hello world".index('l ')

2

>>"hello world".index('l ', 2+1)

3

>>"hello world".index('l ', 3+1)

9

>>"hello world".index('l ', 9+1)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: substring not found

Hopefully some of that helps.

Matt

[Ben Finney]

Nikhil <mn*****@gmail. comwrites:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Are you aware that Python file objects are already iterable, yielding
one line of text per iteration?

input_file = open("foo.txt")
for line in input_file:
do_stuff(line)

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[Alan Isaac]

Nikhil wrote:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Why dont the ``find`` or ``index`` methods work for you?
http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

[iapain]

On May 29, 11:30 pm, Nikhil <mnik...@gmail. comwrote:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Thanks,
Nikhil

If you just want to check required value then you can even use Sets or
build your own hash table.

[Tobiah]

>or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

They already are. They are quite like lists in many ways:

>>s = 'abcdefg'
for c in s: print c

....
a
b
c
d
e
f
g

>>s[3]

'd'

>>s = "foo\r\n"
s.find("\r" )

3

>>s.replace("\r ", "").replace("\n ", "")

'foo'

>>>

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[Lie]

On May 30, 4:30*am, Nikhil <mnik...@gmail. comwrote:

or a string iterable ? How can I do that. I have lots of '\r\n'
characters in the string which I think can be easier if it were made
into a list and I can easily see if the required value (its a numeral)
is present in it or not after some position or after some characters'
position.

Thanks,
Nikhil

Isn't it already iterable? And combined with str.split(), it could be
line iterable too.