Newline (NuBe Question)

[Grizzy Adams]

Wednesday, November 15, 2023  at 9:50, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
Re: Newline (NuBe Question) (at least in part)

>On 15/11/2023 07:25, Grizzy Adams via Python-list wrote:

>> for s in students:
>>                 grades.append(s.school)
>>                 grades.append(s.name)
>>                 grades.append(s.finalGrade())
>>                 if s.finalGrade()>82:
>>                         grades.append("Pass")
>>                 else:
>>                         grades.append("Fail")
>> print(grades)
>> 
>> --- End Code Snippit  ---

>> Do I need to replace "append" with "print", or is there a way to get the 
>> newline in as I append to list?

>Firstly, it is usually a bad idea to mix formatting features(like
>newline) with the data. You will need to remove them again if you want
>to work with the data itself.

True, I onlt went that way when my (vain) attempts to add a newline any other 
way, my usual language is VB/VBA, Delphi or C++ at a push, so I'm really a nube 
here

>So, better to print the raw data and add the formatting during printing.

>There are a couple of options here (well more than a couple actually!)
>The simplest is to create another for loop and print each field with a
>newline automatically added by print()

>Another is to simply join everything in grades together separated by
>newlines. Python has a method to do that called join():

>print('\n'.join(grades))

>Unfortunately it seems your data has a mix of strings and numbers so
>that won't work without some tweaks:

>print('\n'.join(str(f) for f in grades))

that gets closer (sort of) my old code gave on long (only 5 records so far) 
list,

['Example High', 'Mary', 89.6, 'Pass', 'Example High', 'Matthew', 76.5, 'Fail', 
'Example High', 'Marie', 80.4, 'Fail', 'Example High', 'Manuel', 79.6, 'Fail', 
'Example High', 'Malala', 98.9, 'Pass']

your code gives one tall column, 

Example High
Mary
89.6
Pass
Example High
Matthew
76.5
Fail
Example High
Marie
80.4
Fail
Example High
Manuel
79.6
Fail
Example High
Malala
98.9
Pass

my ideal one row for each student (this I have edited manually)

Example High, Mary, 89.6, Pass
Example High, Matthew, 76.5, Fail
Example High, Marie, 80.4, Fail
Example High, Manuel, 79.6, Fail
Example High, Malala, 98.9, Pass

>However, I wonder if this really what you want? You have created grades as a
>long list containing all of the attributes of all of the students plus their
>Pass/Fail status. But you have no (easy)way to access the Pass/Fail value for
>each student. Do you really want to store the Pass/Fail in the student? And
>then print the students? Like so: 

I do want to keep the data in tact, incase it gets reused later in the 
tutorial(s)

>Just a thought...

>PS. There are neater ways to do this but you may not have covered
>those yet so I'll stick to basics.

I already jumped forward a bit (to python Classes)

Thanks