Question

I would like to split a string of characters into 3 variables. When I just run a .split() I get ['AAA00000011']. I would like this to be split like:

var1 = AAA
var2 = 0000001
var3 = 1

The user is typing in these values into the command line on windows machine.

My Code:

barcode = raw_input('Please enter your barcode')

print "this is the barcode all split up", barcode.split()

Answer 1

Are you looking for this?

var1 = barcode[:3]   # first three characters
var2 = barcode[3:-1] # all characters from third to next-to-last
var3 = barcode[-1]   # last character