need help with my append syntax

[Qiangning Hong]

Do not discuss off-list, maybe others will have better solutions to your
question.  And also please do not top-posting, it makes me difficult to
trim the irrelevant text.

yaffa wrote:
> sorry addr is a variable.  how to i append to that?

I know addr is a variable (or better a name).  But what object do you
assign to it?  I mean, does incident.findNextSibling('td') return a
string or an object of another type?

If your code "addr.append('%s;')" doesn't raise an exception, it is
pretty sure what assigned to addr is not a string (maybe a list, which
has an "append" method).  You can use "print addr" or "print repr(addr)"
to determine that.


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Qiangning Hong" <hongqn at gmail.com>
> To: "yaffa" <yxxxxlxxxxx at gmail.com>
> Cc: <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: need help with my append syntax
> 
> 
>> yaffa wrote:
>>
>>> dear folks,
>>>
>>> i'm trying to append a semicolon to my addr string and am using the
>>> syntax below.  for some reason the added on of the ; doesn't work.
>>> when i print it out later on it only shows the original value of addr.
>>>
>>> addr = incident.findNextSibling('td')
>>> addr.append('%s;')
>>
>>
>> Is addr is really a string?  AFAIK, strings havn't an append methond.
>>
>> use += to extend strings:
>>
>> .>>> addr = 'abc'
>> .>>> addr += '%s;'
>> .>>> addr
>> 'abc%s;'
>>
>> -- 
>> Qiangning Hong
>>
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-- 
Qiangning Hong

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as an editor. Since I'm hooked to that, all IDEs I've used so far have
failed to impress me.
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