On Dec 31, 6:41 am, 5lvqbw...@sneakemail.com wrote: > On Dec 30, 11:31 am, wx1...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I have a list and would like to parse the list appending each list > > item to the end of a variable on a new line. > > > for instance > > > mylist = ['something\n', 'another something\n', 'something again\n'] > > > then parse mylist to make it appear in my variable in this format: > > > myvar = """ > > something > > another something > > something again""" > > > how would i go about setting a variable like this? > > I think you want to concatenate the three elements in your list and > then assign the resulting string to myvar. Strings that are defined > with tripple quotes still get the newline character as though they > were defined with double or single quotes and \n in them. > > >>> conc = lambda x,y: x[:] + y # concatenate 2 lists without side effects > >>> mylist = ['something\n', 'another something\n', 'something again\n'] > >>> myvar = reduce(conc, mylist) > >>> print myvar
OTOH escapees from FORTRAN would prefer something like: TOT = '' for I in xrange(len(MYLIST)): TOT = TOT + MYLIST[I] FTNWRITE(6, '*', TOT) SNOpy, anyone? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
