On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:01 -0800, _ wrote: > (I did google for this, I promise) > > How do I get python NOT to insert newlines into string representations > of lists when I do something like this: > > strCollector += "%s" % (['a', 'list', 'with', 'lots', 'of', 'elements'] > * 100)
What makes you think that that inserts newline characters? My python doesn't do that: >>> a = "%s" % (['a', 'list', 'with', 'lots', 'of', 'elements'] * 100) >>> "\n" in a False > FYI I am using this to export data into tab delimited format You could avoid reinventing the wheel by using the "csv" module. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list