Single format descriptor for list

[Frank Millman]

"Paul Appleby"  wrote in message 
news:pan.2016.01.20.09.35.09 at nowhere.invalid...
>
> 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?
>

How about this -

>>> a = range(4, 8)
>>> print('\n'.join(['{}th'.format(x) for x in a]))
4th
5th
6th
7th
>>>

Frank Millman