Is there a simple way of passing a list as the parameter to a string substitution in python ? Something like:
w = ['a', 'b', 'c']
s = '%s\t%s\t%s\n' % w
Something similar to the way dictionaries work in this case.
+3
A:
Just convert the list to a tuple:
w = ['a', 'b', 'c']
s = '%s\t%s\t%s\n' % tuple(w)
Amnon
2010-06-21 12:37:40
Great, didn't know about this one, thanks!
hyperboreean
2010-06-21 12:40:39
And of course, as fabe said, you can just use a tuple directly.
Amnon
2010-06-21 12:42:38
It depends from where that data is coming from :-), but yes, theoretically it's possible.
hyperboreean
2010-06-21 12:50:00
A:
use a tuple instead of a list
w = ('a', 'b', 'c')
s = '%s\t%s\t%s\n' % w
using a dict also works
w = { 'Akey' : 'a', 'Bkey' : 'b', 'Ckey' : 'c' }
s = '%(Akey)s\t%(Bkey)s\t%(Ckey)s\n' % w
http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/typesseq-strings.html
fabe
2010-06-21 12:40:15