interactive window vs. script: inconsistent behavior

[Bell, Kevin]

The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in
a script. TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a
COM VARIANT

I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy.
Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script?

d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
print d[0:d.find("to")-1] 5-18-05
print d[d.find("to")+3:] 5-31-05

Kev

 

[Duncan Booth]

The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in
a script. TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a
COM VARIANT

I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy.
Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script?

d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
print d[0:d.find("to")-1] 5-18-05
print d[d.find("to")+3:] 5-31-05

Not surprisingly, the above three lines work perfectly well in a script:

d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
print d[0:d.find("to")-1]
print d[d.find("to")+3:]

and the output is:
C:\temp>t.py
5-18-05
5-31-05

Perhaps if you were to post an actual script which doesn't work and the
actual error it generates, it might be possible to help you.

 

[Larry Bates]

This also works and IMHO reads better:

d="5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
f,t=d.split(' to '))

Larry Bates

The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in
a script. TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a
COM VARIANT

I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy.
Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script?

d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
print d[0:d.find("to")-1]

5-18-05

print d[d.find("to")+3:]

5-31-05





Kev