simple question on persisting variable values in a list

[Paul Hankin]

On Nov 20, 9:41 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 20, 3:25 pm, dgris... at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I am an unabashed noob.
>
> > I am trying to build a list to store values that are generated through
> > a loop.  However, every time I append the variable to the list, I'd
> > like to reset the variable, but have the value persist in the loop.  I
> > understand why this doesn't work because it's a reference not a
> > literal value but have been unsuccessful at using copy.copy() or
> > anything else to accomplish this:
>
> > for char in splitlines[r]:
>
> >             if char == "\n":
> >                 temp = copy.deepcopy(templine)
> >                 individline.append(temp)
> >                 templine = ""
> >             else:
> >                 templine += char
>
> > results.append(individline)
>
> > This just gives me the last element in splitlines[r] - what i want is
> > to persist each line that is parsed from splitlines[] into the results
> > list.
>
> > Appreciate any help,,,
>
> Not sure if this is what you want, but here's what I did:
>
> <IDLE session>
>
> >>> x = 'blah\nblah\n'
> >>> lst = []
> >>> templine = ''
> >>> for char in x:
>
>         if char == '\n':
>                 temp = templine
>                 lst.append(temp)
>                 templine = ''
>         else:
>                 templine += char

No need for all that code, because you're reimplementing the 'split'
method of strings:

x = 'blah\nblah\n'
lst = x.split('\n')[:-1]

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Paul Hankin