[Tutor] Iterate Suggestion

[Bod Soutar]

On 14 April 2012 18:29, Bod Soutar <bodsda at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 14 April 2012 16:27, Tom Tucker <tktucker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello all.  Any suggestions how I could easily iterate over a list and
>> print the output 3 across (when possible)?  One method I was considering
>> was removing the recently printed item from the list, checking list length,
>> etc.  Based on the remaining length of the list I would then print X
>> across. Yah? Is their and easier approach I might be overlooking?
>>
>>
>> For example...
>>
>> mylist = ['serverA', 'serverB', 'serverC', 'serverD',' serverE',
>> 'serverF', 'serverG']
>>
>>
>> Desired Output
>> ============
>> serverA  serverB  serverC
>> serverD  serverE  serverF
>> serverG
>>
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> How about something like this
>
>
> mylist =  ['serverA', 'serverB', 'serverC', 'serverD','serverE',
> 'serverF', 'serverG']
> tempstr = ""
> count = 0
>
> for item in mylist:
>     count += 1
>     if count == 3:
>         tempstr += (i + "\n")
>         count = 0
>     else:
>         tempstr += (i + " ")
>
> print tempstr
>
>
> The above code prepares an empty string variable, and a count variable. On
> each iteration, it checks to see if the count is equal to 3. If it is, then
> it appends the current list element to the string and also adds a newline
> character("\n"), then the count is reset to 0. If the count isn't 3, it
> simply appends the current list element along with a space.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bodsda
>
>
> erm, I screwed up my variable names. where you see 'i', this should be
item (or the other way around).
My bad.

-- Bodsda
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