I am out of trial and error again Lists
Denis McMahon
denismfmcmahon at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 19:21:43 EDT 2014
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:58:00 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
> I make lots of typing mistakes. It is not that. Did you see the short
> example I posted?
>
> name="123-xyz-abc"
> for x in name:
> if x in range(10):
> print ("Range",(x))
> if x in str(range(10)):
> print ("String range",(x))
>
> It doesn't throw an error but it doesn't print what you would expect.
It prints exactly what I expect.
Try the following:
print(str(range(10)), type(str(range(10))))
print(str(list(range(10))), type(str(listr(range(10)))))
In python 3, str(x) just wraps x up and puts it in a string. range(x)
generates an iterable range object.
hence str(range(10)) is a string telling you that range(10) is an iterable
range object with certain boundaries.
However, list(iterable) expands the iterable to the full list of possible
values, so str(list(range(10))) is a string representation of the list
containing the values that the iterable range(10) creates.
Note that whether you're looking at a string representation of a value or
the value itself is a lot clearer in the interpreter console where
strings are displayed with quotes.
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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com
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