Iterating through a nested list
CamelR
thecamel at camelrichard.org
Sat Apr 15 23:36:17 EDT 2006
I have a newbie question, and I have seen reference to this mentioned
in many places, but all just say "this has been discussed frequently
in (other places) so we won't discuss it here..." and I am unable to
find the actual answer...
I expected :
Array = ["topdir", ["/subdir1", ["/file1", "/file2"], "/subdir2",
["/file1", "/file2"], "/subdir3", ["/file1", "/file2"]]]
for i in range(len(Array)):
print Array[i]
for x in range(len(Array[i])):
print Array[i][x]
for y in range(len(Array[i][x])):
print Array[i][x][y]
to produce output like this:
topdir
['/subdir1', ['/file1', '/file2'], '/subdir2', ['/file1', '/file2'],
'/subdir3', ['/file1', '/file2']]
/subdir1
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
/subdir2
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
/subdir3
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
but instead, it is iterating through each character in the elements,
like this:
topdir
t
t
o
o
p
p
d
d
i
i
r
r
['/subdir1', ['/file1', '/file2'], '/subdir2', ['/file1', '/file2'],
'/subdir3', ['/file1', '/file2']]
/subdir1
/
s
u
b
d
i
r
1
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
/subdir2
/
s
u
b
d
i
r
2
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
/subdir3
/
s
u
b
d
i
r
3
['/file1', '/file2']
/file1
/file2
so what am I doing wrong? I would really appreciate any advice or
pointers...
Thanks!
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