Format list of list sub elements keeping structure.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/07/18 06:41, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:25:48 UTC+10, Rick Johnson  wrote:
>> Sayth Renshaw wrote:
>>
>>> elements = [['[{0}]'.format(element) for element in elements]for elements in data]
>>
>> I would suggest you avoid list comprehensions until you master long-form loops.
> 
> I actually have the answer except for a glitch where on list element is an int.
> 
> My code
> 
> for item in data:
>      out = '[{0}]'.format("][".join(item))
>      print(out)
> 
> which prints out
> 
> [glossary]
> [glossary][title]
> [glossary][GlossDiv]
> [glossary][GlossDiv][title]
> [glossary][GlossDiv][GlossList]
> ....
> 
> However, in my source I have two lines like this
> 
>   ['glossary', 'GlossDiv', 'GlossList', 'GlossEntry', 'GlossDef', 'GlossSeeAlso', 0],
>   ['glossary', 'GlossDiv', 'GlossList', 'GlossEntry', 'GlossDef', 'GlossSeeAlso', 1],
> 
> when it hits these lines I get
> 
> TypeError: sequence item 6: expected str instance, int found
> 
> Do I need to do an explicit check for these 2 cases or is there a simpler way?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sayth
> 

out = '[{0}]'.format("][".join(str(item)))

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