On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > Victor Subervi wrote: > >> Hi; >> I have the following code: >> >> print 'printTheForm: ', descrProds, '<br />' >> for value in descrProds: >> print 'value: ', value, '<br />' >> >> which prints this: >> >> printTheForm: [['ID', 'tinyint', '5', '0', None], ['SKU', 'varchar', '40', >> '', None], ['Category', 'varchar', '40', '', None], ['Name', 'varchar', >> '50', '', None], ['Title', 'varchar', '100', '', None], ['Description', >> 'mediumtext', '100', '', None], ['Price', 'float', '8', '0.0', None], >> ['SortFactor', 'int', '4', '0', None], ['Availability', 'tinyint', '1', >> '0', >> '1'], ['OutOfStock', 'tinyint', '1', '0', '0'], ['ShipFlatFee', 'float', >> '5', '0.0', '0.00'], ['ShipPercentPrice', 'tinyint', '2', '0', '0'], >> ['ShipPercentWeight', 'tinyint', '2', '0', '0'], ['Associations', >> 'varchar', >> '40', '', None], ['TempPrice', 'tinyint', '1', '0', None], >> ['LastDatePrice', >> 'date', '10', 'yyyy/mm/dd', None], ['Weight', 'float', '7', '0.0', None], >> ['Metal', 'enum', ['14k gold', '18k gold', 'white gold', 'silver', >> 'tungsten', 'titanium'], '', None], ['PercentMetal', 'tinyint', '2', '0', >> None], ['colorsShadesNumbersShort', 'set', [''], '', None]] >> value: ['ID', 'tinyint', '5', '0', None] >> value: ['SKU', 'varchar', '40', '', None] >> value: ['Category', 'varchar', '40', '', None] >> value: ['Name', 'varchar', '50', '', None] >> value: ['Title', 'varchar', '100', '', None] >> value: ['Description', 'mediumtext', '100', '', None] >> value: ['Price', 'float', '8', '0.0', None] >> value: ['SortFactor', 'int', '4', '0', None] >> value: ['Availability', 'tinyint', '1', '0', '1'] >> value: ['OutOfStock', 'tinyint', '1', '0', '0'] >> value: ['ShipFlatFee', 'float', '5', '0.0', '0.00'] >> value: ['ShipPercentPrice', 'tinyint', '2', '0', '0'] >> value: ['ShipPercentWeight', 'tinyint', '2', '0', '0'] >> value: ['Associations', 'varchar', '40', '', None] >> value: ['TempPrice', 'tinyint', '1', '0', None] >> value: ['LastDatePrice', 'date', '10', 'yyyy/mm/dd', None] >> >> You'll notice that the first print statement prints out several tuples >> that >> don't get printed out in the last statement (they're truncated). Why? >> TIA, >> beno >> >> >> > As Emile points out, you're clearly doing some other processing between > that print and the place you're capturing the output. Presumably this is a > CGI script or equivalent. So several other layers of code are manipulating > that stream before you see it. > > Have you added another print immediately after the loop, so you can tell > that it ended, and that subsequent output is separated from it? My first > guess was that you have some character in there that's special to html, such > as "<", but I don't see such. In general, you might need to escape your > data (using & escape sequences), rather than just printing it directly to > the CGI stream. > > Another clue for this type of problem is to look at the "page source" in > your browser, rather than trust its rendering. Sometimes the rendering gets > messed up, especially if the html is not strictly legal. > > In Firefox, use "View -> Page Source" to see the source to the page, which > should come pretty close to the output of your print statements. > > My preference would be to run the script outside of the web-server > environment, either on a local copy, or by shelling into your server. >
Thank you. This was very helpful, viewing source. beno
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