Hi all, Thanks for your response. I figured out the issue. I was using list.append() to append another list, when I should have been using expand(). Sorry for the confusion.
On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 20, 1:16 pm, "Robert Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here is a more realized example of the lists I'm trying to join: > > > > _user_includes = [ > > "../src", > > "../resource", > > "../inc", > > "../src", > > "../data", > > "../gui", > > "../script", > > "../script/actions", > > "../gui/dispatch", > > "../gui/factories", > > "../gui/frames", > > "../gui/getters", > > "../gui/localization", > > "../gui/player", > > "../gui/setters", > > "../gui/utilities", > > "../sis", > > "../player", > > "../platform/ngi", > > "../../engine", > > "../../engine/audio/NGI", > > "../../engine/io", > > "../../engine/io\NGI", > > "../../engine/math", > > "../../engine/math/fixed", > > "../../engine/path/NGI", > > "../../engine/text/NGI", > > "../../engine/mem", > > "../../engine/text", > > "../../engine/observer", > > "../../sdk/tiny_xml", > > "../../sdk/zlib", > > "../../sdk/lpng", > > "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/Precompile", > > "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/CoreLib", > > "../../sdk/IFDLib/inc", > > "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/UtilLib", > > "../../sdk/IFDLib/Source/GameLib", > > "../../sdk/IFDlib/Source/OSLib/_NGI", > > "../../sdk/stl-port/NGI", > > "../../sdk/mini-boost/NGI", > > "../../sdk/mini-boost/COMMON", > > ] > > > > _system_includes = [ > > "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include", > > > > "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/rga", > > > > "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/stdapis", > > > > "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/EPOC32/include/osextensions/stdapis/stlport", > > "../../../../../../Symbian/9.1/NGAGE_SDK_1.1/epoc32/include/variant" > > ] > > > > On 8/20/07, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > First have a look at the following code: > > > > > In main.py: > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > space = " " > > > > > includes = space.join ( system._user_includes ) + " " + space.join( > > > system._system_includes ) > > > > > In system.py: > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _user_includes = [ > > > ] > > > > > _system_includes = [ > > > ] > > > > > The above does not work. The interpreter states: "TypeError: sequence item > > > 0: expected string, list found". I'm not sure what this means. Can anyone > > > help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. > > > > > PS: I've also tried putting strings in the lists above just to make sure > > > that them being empty wasn't the problem. I got no different results. > > When you use join, you join the items in the list with each other to > form one long string. In your statement, your script tries to > concatenate 2 lists to each other before it does the join, which is > impossible in Python. The "+" operator is only for addition and for > two or more strings. > > See http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/odbchelper_join.html for > more information on joins. > > Mike > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
