Prepending string "@" to usernames

[Dan Stromberg]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Murphy
<thomasmurphymusic at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi beloved list,
>
> I'm having a dumb and SO doesn't seem to have this one answered. I was
> sent a long list of instagram usernames to tag for a nightlife
> announcement in this format(not real names(i hope))
>
> cookielover93
> TheGermanHatesSaurkraut
> WhatsThatBoy932834
>
> I'd like to turn this raw text into a list and prepend the @ symbol to
> the front of each one, so they're good to go for pasting without me
> having to manually add the @ to each one.
>
> Here's where I got to:
>
>
> raw_address = "cookielover93 TheGermanHatesSaurkraut WhatsThatBoy932834"
> address_library = [raw_address.split()]
> print address_library
>
> for address in address_library:
>     final_address = "@" + str(address)
> print final_address
>
>
> However my output is:
>
> [['cookielover93', 'TheGermanHatesSaurkraut', 'WhatsThatBoy932834']]
> @['cookielover93', 'TheGermanHatesSaurkraut', 'WhatsThatBoy932834']
>
>
> I know I'm iterating wrong. May I ask how?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Thomas Murphy
> Code Ninja
> 646.957.6115
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Maybe this is what you're looking for?

raw_address = "cookielover93 TheGermanHatesSaurkraut WhatsThatBoy932834"
address_library = raw_address.split()
print address_library

final_address = []
for address in address_library:
    final_address.append("@" + str(address))
print final_address
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