Marv Boyes wrote:
<div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">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.
Usually, when people say they want to assign items from a list to
separate variables, it's because they don't understand lists. But I'll
give you several (untested) fragments, and see if one of them comes
close to what you really want.
Assuming URLs is your current list, and that it has exactly 3 items in it.
here, there, everwhere = URLs
will give you those three variables, each assigned to one of the
URL strings
print "Link to Thing1", URLs[0]
print "Link to Thing2", URLs[1]
print "Link to Thing3", URLs[2]
lets you print them out individually, without wasting any separate
assignments, or giving them explicit names
for index, item in enumerate(URLs):
print "Link to Thing%s" % index, item
will print out your original request, and even work if you change
the list to have 4 or 5 items
HTH
DaveA
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