Split string by count of characters

Question

I can\'t figure out how to do this with string methods:

In my file I have something like 1.012345e0070.123414e-004-0.1234567891.21423... which means there is no deli

Answer 1

line = "1.012345e0070.123414e-004-0.1234567891.21423"
firstNumber = line[:12]
restOfLine = line[12:]

print firstNumber
print restOfLine

Output:

1.012345e007
0.123414e-004-0.1234567891.21423