I think this should be relatively simple, but I can't figure it out. I have a string that represents coordinates, +27.5916+086.5640 and I need to put a comma in between the longitude and latitude so I get +27.5916,+086.5640.
I'm looking through the API but I can't seem to find something for this.
Oh and I have to use Python 2.7.3 since the program I writing for doesn't support Python 3.X.
If your coordinates are c, then this would work. Note, however, this will not work for negative values. Do you have to deal with negatives as well?
",+".join(c.rsplit("+", 1))
For dealing with negatives as well.
import re
parts = re.split("([\+\-])", c)
parts.insert(3, ',')
print "".join(parts[1:])
OUTPUT
+27.5916,+086.5640'
And for negatives:
>>> c = "+27.5916-086.5640"
>>> parts = re.split("([\+\-])", c)
>>> parts.insert(3, ',')
>>> "".join(parts[1:])
'+27.5916,-086.5640'
This method will take care of commas if they are already there.
str = '-27.5916-086.5640'
import re
",".join(re.findall('([\+-]\d+\.\d+)',str))
'-27.5916,-086.5640'
Since the second component seems to be formatted with leading zeros and a fixed number of decimal places, how about this:
>>> s='+27.5916+086.5640'
>>> s[0:-9]+','+s[-9:]
'+27.5916,+086.5640'
Sounds like a job for a regular expression:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug 27 2012, 21:19:01)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 ((tags/Apple/clang-421.0.57))] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> coords = '+27.5916+086.5640'
>>> lat, long = re.findall('[+-]\d+\.\d+', coords)
>>> ','.join((lat, long))
'+27.5916,+086.5640'
