Re: string methods

anthonyberet wrote:
> I know this touches on immutability etc, but I can't find string methods
> to return the first 3 characters, and then the last 2 characters, which
> I could concatenate with newchar to make a new string.

As tiissa said, you want slicing:

py> s = "foobar"
py> s[:3]
'foo'
py> s[:3] + "B" + s[4:]
'fooBar'
py>

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Brian Beck
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