On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Marv Boyes <marvbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all. This is probably embarrassingly basic, but I haven't been able > to find something that works. > > I'm working on a script that needs to manipulate a list (not 'list' in the > Python sense) of URLs returned in a server response. Right now, I'm > stripping the XML tags from that response and assigning the resulting list > of URLs to a variable so I can print it in the terminal. So when I do, say, > 'print urls' I get something like this: > > http://server.com/thing1 > http://server.com/thing2 > http://server.com/thing3 > > And so on. What I would _like_ to do is assign each line of that list to a > separate variable, so that I can format my output to be more explicit; > something like this: > > Link to Thing1: http://server.com/thing1 > Link to Thing2: http://server.com/thing2 > > And so on. I know this should be extremely easy, but I appear to be having > some manner of mental block. Any and all guidance would be greatly > appreciated; many thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > Hello, you could use a dictionary to assign a key value and a descrption, but without seeing some data this is very rough data = {} for line in response: key, value = response.split(",") # line is "myname, http://blah.com"; data[key] = value #then later for key, value in data.items(): print "Link To %s : %s" % key, value
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