Single format descriptor for list

Paul Appleby pap at nowhere.invalid
Wed Jan 20 04:35:09 EST 2016


In BASH, I can have a single format descriptor for a list:

$ a='4 5 6 7'
$ printf "%sth\n" $a
4th
5th
6th
7th

Is this not possible in Python? Using "join" rather than "format" still 
doesn't quite do the job:

>>> a = range(4, 8)
>>> print ('th\n'.join(map(str,a)))
4th
5th
6th
7

Is there an elegant way to print-format an arbitrary length list?



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