On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:47:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using this function to parse data I have stored in an array. > > This is what the array looks like: > > [['Memory', '0', 'Summary', '0'], ['Memory', '0', 'Speed', > 'PC3200U-30330'], ['Memory', '0', 'Type', 'DDR SDRAM'], ... ]
[snip more of the array] > This is the code to parse the array: > > count=0 > place=0 place is not used in your function. Remove it. > query=[] > while 1: > try: > i=fetch.next() What is fetch and what does fetch.next() do? It is considered bad programming practice to use a variable i for anything except for i in range(). i for "index", not i for "next record". > except StopIteration: > break > if i[1] != count: What is i? A list? A tuple? A dict? What is stored in it? > ++count > query.append(count) Why are you appending the numeric value of count to the list query? Since count starts at zero, and increases by one, your list is just [1, 2, 3, ...] > qval=`query[count]` It looks like you are setting the variable qval to the string representation of a number. Backticks are being depreciated, you should write this as qval = str(query[count]). But if I have understood your program logic correctly, query[count] up to this point is just count. So a much simpler way is to just use qval = str(count). > query[count]=qval+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " Impossible to know what this does since we don't know what i is. Hint: it is easier to read and parse expressions by adding a small amount of whitespace: query[count] = qval + i[2] + "=" + i[3] + ", " > print qval,"\n" > > When it runs I get an output similar to this. > > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Type=DDR > SDRAM, > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Size=512, > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Slot=DIMM2/J13, > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ConfigurationType=2, > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Summary=0, > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'Speed=PC3200U-30330, \\\\\\\'Type=DDR SDRAM, > \\\'Size=512, \'Slot=DIMM3/J14, ' > > When it's supposed to print just the plain text with the numbers etc. See below for some further hints. > I have changed these lines: > > qval=`query[count]` > query[count]=qval+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " > > To this: > > query[count]=query[count]+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " > > I get this error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): File "infnode.py", line 60, in ? > query[count]=query[count]+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", "TypeError: unsupported > operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' Yes. query[count] is an integer equal to count. i[2] is who-knows-what. "=" is a string. You can't add strings to ints. > So I try and fix it by doing this: > > query[count]=`query[count]`+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " That is functionally equivalent to your first version. > Can someone please point me in the right direction I am sure that the > `query[count]` is causing the backslashes. I doubt it very much. But you can test it by adding some print lines in your code: change this: qval=`query[count]` query[count]=qval+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " to this: print "Count is: ", count print "query[count] is: ", query[count] qval=`query[count]` print "qval is: ", qval query[count]=qval+i[2]+"="+i[3]+", " print "query[count] changed.\nNew value is: ", query[count] -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
