I'm very sorry; I should have been more explicit in what it is I'm
working with.
The response from the server consists of a pair of hashes and a list of
URLs for doing different things with the file the hashes represent. So
the full response is like this:
file_hash
delete_hash
http://server.com/file_hash.ext
http://server.com/file_hashA.ext
http://server.com/file_hashB.ext
http://server.com/file_hashC.ext
http://server.com/delete/deletehash
I'm hoping to assign each line of that response to a separate variable
so I can format the output on a case-by-case basis, e.g.:
direct_link = <third URL in response>
print "Direct link to file: %s' % direct_link
-or-
delete_file = <seventh URL in response>
print "Delete the file: %s' % delete_file
I've got seven lines worth of server response, their order is
significant, and I need to be able to present each value in an arbitrary
way. I won't necessarily be presenting these values to the user in the
same order they come in the server response. Some of the values I'll
need to use elsewhere in the script to do other things, but it won't be
necessary to present those values to the user.
I'm not sure I'm even making sense to myself.
Kent Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Marv Boyes<[email protected]> 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
It looks like your "list" of URLs is a string containing one URL per
line. If you put it in an actual list, you can process it more
flexibly. Something like
urlList = urls.splitlines()
for i, url in enumerate(urlList):
print "Link to Thing%s: %s" % (i, url)
Kent
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