Python help needed
Dan Sommers
2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com
Thu Aug 8 13:29:23 EDT 2019
On 8/8/19 12:26 PM, Paolo G. Cantore wrote:
> I think the special case treatment could be avoided.
>
> First: Join all items with ' and '
> Second: Replace all ' and ' with ', ' except the last
That works great, until one of the elements of the original list is
"spam and eggs":
>>> spam = ['apples', 'spam and eggs', 'bananas', 'tofu', 'cats']
>>> s = " and ".join(spam)
>>> s.replace(" and ", ", ", len(spam) - 2) # except the last
'apples, spam, eggs, bananas and tofu and cats'
Dan
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