escape sequences in list comprehensions

Jeremy Jones zanesdad at bellsouth.net
Fri Nov 12 08:54:23 EST 2004


kartik wrote:

>Escape sequences don't seem to work in strings within list comprehensions:
>  
>
>>>>print ['%s\n' %i for i in [1,2,3]]
>>>>        
>>>>
>['1\n', '2\n', '3\n']
>
>What am I missing?
>
>Thank you.
>  
>
What are you expecting it to do?  It looks like it's working fine to 
me.  It's giving you your list back, but converting each element to a 
string, the last "piece" of which is a "\n".  What were you expecting 
differently from that?

Jeremy Jones
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