need help with list/variables

[John Machin]

On Dec 31, 6:41 am, 5lvqbw... at sneakemail.com wrote:
> On Dec 30, 11:31 am, wx1... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I have a list and would like to parse the list appending each list
> > item to the end of a variable on a new line.
>
> > for instance
>
> > mylist = ['something\n', 'another something\n', 'something again\n']
>
> > then parse mylist to make it appear in my variable in this format:
>
> > myvar = """
> > something
> > another something
> > something again"""
>
> > how would i go about setting a variable like this?
>
> I think you want to concatenate the three elements in your list and
> then assign the resulting string to myvar.  Strings that are defined
> with tripple quotes still get the newline character as though they
> were defined with double or single quotes and \n in them.
>
> >>> conc = lambda x,y: x[:] + y # concatenate 2 lists without side effects
> >>> mylist = ['something\n', 'another something\n', 'something again\n']
> >>> myvar = reduce(conc, mylist)
> >>> print myvar

OTOH escapees from FORTRAN would prefer something like:

TOT = ''
for I in xrange(len(MYLIST)):
   TOT = TOT + MYLIST[I]
FTNWRITE(6, '*', TOT)

SNOpy, anyone?