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check if letters of a string are in sequential order in another string

If it were just checking whether letters in a test_string are also in a control_string, I would not have had this problem. I will simply use the code below. if set(test_string.lower()) <= set(...
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Python 3: Perfect Alphabetical Order

The goal of the code is to find the longest alphabetical substring within a string. s = 'xyzbcdezzz' longest_string = '' current_string = '' stringcount = 0 for n in range (len(s) - 1): if s[n] ...
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I'm trying to replace a character in Python while iterating over a string and but it doesn't work

This is the code I currently have: letter = raw_input("Replace letter?") traversed = raw_input("Traverse in?") replacewith = raw_input("Replace with?") traverseint = 0 for i in traversed: ...
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Python list to string

Element3 of each list is a list (in brackets). I want element3 to be a string 'store1.txt' not ['store1.txt']. store_list = [["Freds", "store1"], ["Sams", "store2"], ["Johns", "store3"], ["Toms", "...
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for var in string returning all vars in string Python

My code: text="Qmfbtf fbu nf" for f in text: print "f" In an ideal situation the output would print 4 f's However it is returning one f per character in the string. It seems to be using my ...
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Preventing a Python For-loop from iterating over a single string by char

I have a variable which can be a single string or a list of string. When the variable is a single string , the loop iterates it by char. text = function() # the function method can return a single ...
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How to get the index of duplicates in a string [duplicate]

Python cannot seem to differentiate between duplicates of the same letter. For example: word = "australia" variable = "a" for letter in word: if variable == letter: index = word.index( ...
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Issue with iterating through list of callable

I am having an issue with iterating over a list of callables in python. The callables are supposed to be called on a generator of strings. The current behaviour is that the last callable in the list ...
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Pull a desired value (integer) from a string, that is inbetween two underscores

Strange one, I have lots of folders named for example: 141110_0.7_armt_amb2_4_load_haut_pag_-40.74_75.06_ or 141110_0.7_armt_amb2_5_load_haut_pag_-40.74_75.06_ I want to pull the integer value (...
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In python, how do I find the positions of a word that occurs more than once in a sentence using a for loop?

Basically, i need to make a python 2.7 program where the user inputs a sentence, then inputs a word, and if the word is in the sentence, the program displays its position(s). if the word is not in the ...
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Loop through Oracle Cursor and Save excel file as string variable

import CX_Oracle Import xlwt SQL0 = "SELECT COUNTRY FROM COUNTRYLIST" cursor0 = con.cursor() cursor0.execute(SQL0) for country in cursor0: SQL = "SELECT * from TABLE WHERE COUNTRY = %s" % country ...
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Trying to append a list with immutable list of chars [Python]

so I'm trying to append a string of chars to a list, while changing the last char in the list as the loop proceeds. However, whenever I try to change the list of chars, all the previous chars become ...
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looping through each element of a string and handling wildcard cases in python

I want to find if string1 is substring of string2. e.g. string1="abc", string2="afcabcdfg". I want to add Wildcard cases, e.g. "*" can substitute "a" and "c", "y" can substitute "f" or "d". As a ...
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Title case for a paragraph

I'm creating a markov chain algorithm. I output a variable called sentences which contains one string of sentences. I want to make the sentences sentence case so I wrote this: for l in range(0, len(...
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