On 9 Juli, 22:25, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul & Robert wrote...
> > d = ["soep", "reeds", "ook"]
> >print ', '.join(d)
> > soep, reeds, ook
>
> I occasionally have a need for printing lists of items too, but in the form:
> "Butter, Cheese, Nuts and Bolts". The last separator is the word 'and'
> instead of the comma. The clearest I could come up with in Python is below.
> I wonder if there is a more pythonic solution for this problem. Maybe
> something recursive?
[snip]
> def pretty(f):
> if len(f)==0: return ''
> if len(f)==1: return f[0]
> sepwithcommas=f[:-1]
> sepwithand=f[-1]
> s=', '.join(sepwithcommas)
> if sepwithand:
> s+=' and '+sepwithand
> return s
def pretty(names):
return ' and '.join(', '.join(names).rsplit(', ', 1))
> friends=['Anne','Bob','Chris','Debbie','Eve','Fred']
print pretty(friends)
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