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Tom llafba at gmx.net
Thu Jun 12 10:31:47 EDT 2003 
Hi Thomas,

thanks for your code. It works perfectly for my purposes.
Yes, I did read the tutorial, but your hint to check out the cookbook 
was exactly what I was looking for!

Thank you.
Regards, Tom



Thomas Güttler wrote:

>Tom wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I compare all items in a list with another value. There are always
>>multiple matches. I need the list index of every match. But if I use
>>index(x) it only returns the first match in that list. There is probably
>>a similar command that does exactly what I want, but I can't find it.
>>    
>>
>
>I would do it like this:
>s="..a....a...a.a"
>indexes=[]
>for i in range(len(s)):
>    char=s[i]
>    if char=="a":
>        indexes.append(i)
>print indexes
>
>  
>
>>Talking about that: is there any good online help or something like
>>that? I have the Python Library Reference, but I find that rather
>>confusing and with very short explanations. I think they set it up the
>>wrong way, because you already have to know the command you are actually
>>looking for?! If  I want to do something, I want to know which command I
>>can use! So, is there any online help or something you can recommend?
>>    
>>
>
>Did you read the tutorial? If you did and you need some more example code
>have a look at the python cookbook.
>
> thomas
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