On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> On 08/10/11 04:34, lina wrote:
>
> print(summary) ### output is [1,3,5,6]
>> summary='\n'.join(str(summary)**.split(','))
>>
>
> This line is wrong.
> This is converting summary to a string -> '[1,3,5,6]'
> Then splitting by commas to create a new list -> [ '[1', '3', '5', 6]' ]
> Notice the first and last elements have the []
> Then it joins then into a string using \n as seperators.
>
> What you want, I think, is to join the original list
> with spaces(and maybe add a newline for writing to file)
>
You are right!
>
>
> summary = ' '.join(summary) + \n
>
>
> Just correct.
> with open(base+OUTFILEEXT,"w") as f:
>> f.write(str(summary))
>>
>
> HTH,
Thanks, it's helpful.
>
>
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