[NEWBIE] List issue aka: "Why doesn't this code work?"

[Emile van Sebille]

"Bruce Dykes" <bkd at graphnet.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1013184014.10227.python-list at python.org...
> Okay, here's my function:
>
> def process_numbers(source_list):
>     for number in range(len(source_list)):
>         entry = string.split(string.strip(source_list[number]))
>         print number, len(entry), entry
>
> Now this function is doing *something*...source_list is a list of
lines
> retrieved via ftp.retrlines(), and this should break each line into
it's own
> list, and it looks like that's what's being printed out:
>
> ['line1', 'header1', 'header2']
> ['line2', 'datum1', 'datum2']
>
> Notice what's missing? I'm expecting to see:
>
> 0 3 ['line1', 'header1', 'header2']
> 1 3 ['line2', 'datum1', 'datum2']
>
> What the heck am I doing wrong here?


If I had to guess, I'd change

def process_numbers(source_list):

to

def XXXprocess_numbers(source_list):

then track down what function is producing the results you're seeing.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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