[Tutor] silly question

Jason Child jasonchild at cnsp.com
Wed Dec 22 21:14:32 CET 2004


Jason Child wrote:

> I've got a silly question.
> #######################
> P1 = "prefix1"
> P2 = "prefix2"
>
> def my_func(list, items):
>    s = 0
>    out = ""
>    for i in range(len(list)):
>        if s == 0:
>            p = P1
>        else:
>            p = P2
>        for j in range(len(items)):
>            out += p +items[j]
>    return out
> ########################
> now what i was expecting was the output to alternate prefixes for each 
> item set in list. so:
>
> list = ["set1","set2"]
> items = ["car","truke",skateboard"]
>
> would yield:
>
> prefix1carprefix1truckprefix1skateboardprefix2carprefix2truckprefix2skateboard 
>
>
> but i am not getting that. I do feel stupid for this, as I usually 
> have an easy time picking up programming languages...
>
>      

oops, I forgot to add the s = 1 and s=0 lines to the example code i 
posted...


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Jason Christopher Child

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