thanks for help everyone. it turned out the function itself worked
fine.. it was the way i was calling it that was messing everything up.
i ended up re-doing the whole thing as follows, and it now works
perfectly.
def news(x,y):
news_file = '/home/scam/Desktop/www/info/news'
news = open(news_file, 'r')
news_list = news.readlines()
news.close()
if x == 'date':
mylist = map(lambda i: news_list[i], filter(lambda i: i%2 == 0,
range
(len(news_list))))
date = mylist[y].replace("\n","")
return '<center><p>%s</p></center>\n\n' % (date)
if x == 'news':
mylist = map(lambda i: news_list[i], filter(lambda i: i%2 == 1,
range
(len(news_list))))
news = mylist[y].replace("\n","")
return '<center><p>%s</p></center>\n<br>\n' % (news)
else:
return news_list
news_parse, count, news_list = " ", 0, news('list','list')
newss = map(lambda i: news_list[i], filter(lambda i: i%2 == 1, range
(len(news_list))))
while count < len(newss):
get_date = news('date', count)
get_news = news('news', count)
news_parse = '%s %s %s' % (news_parse, get_date, get_news)
count = count + 1
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