variable length print format

[Brandon Beck]

Hi Les,

Give this a shot:

     lst = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
     tuples = [ (i,elem) for (i, elem) in zip(range(1, 1+len(lst)), lst) ]
     s = string.join(map(lambda t: "%i:%s"%t, tuples))
     print s


Brandon



les_ander at yahoo.com (les ander) wrote in message news:<a2972632.0205071050.9e68201 at posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> i have a variable length list of numbers.
> i would like to print them out with indicies in front as shown below:
> 
> List=['a','b','c','d'] ---> 1:a 2:b 3:c 4:d
> 
> one obvious solution is that i do
> for i in range(List):
>   print "%s:%s" % (i+1,List[i])
> 
> however i have a lot of these and would like it to be faster so i 
> tried doing this 
> 
> formatstr=" %s:%s " * len(List)
> 
> print formatstr % (range(1,len(List)+1), List)
> 
> but it did not work.
> 
> is there a way to do this another way?
> les