Beginning programmer question - How to print a list in a different format

[Andres Rosado-Sepulveda]

John wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have a dictionary thus: (wraps)
> 
> p1hand = 
> {'b12':b12,'d12':d12,'d23':d23,'n12':n12,'n23':n23,'n34':n34,'p12':p12,'
> p23':p23,'p34':p34,'p45':p45}
> 
> I set a variable called p1handlist so that I can print a list of the 
> keys to the screen:
> 
> p1handlist = p1hand.keys()
> print p1handlist
> 
> and the output looks like this:
> 
> ['b12', 'd12', 'd23', 'n12', 'n23', 'n34', 'p12', 'p23', 'p34', 'p45']
> 
> how can I make it so that the output looks more like this?:
> 
> b12, d12, d23, n12, n23, n34, p12, p23, p34, p45

You can do something like this:

toPrint = ", ".join(p1handlist)
print toPrint

> This is for a simple text mode game I am writing and the output to the 
> screen is important because at times the list gets too big to print on 
> one line of the display.

You might want to split the list first and then join the sublists.

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