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[Kirby Urner]

At 06:35 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Kirk Bailey wrote:
>ok, in IDLE I created a variable, listnamemembers, and
>inserted a bunch of info in it, with triple quotes.
>listnamemembers = """me@here.net
>you@there.org
>Me@here2.com
>everybody@earth.edu
>nobody@domainerror.cc
>"""

Instead of making your data be one long character string,
you might use a list with string elements:

  >>> listmembers = ['me@here.net',
                     'you@there.org',
                     'Me@here2.com',
                     'everybody@earth.edu',
                     'nobody@domainerror.cc']
  >>>
  >>> for i in listmembers:  print i

  me@here.net
  you@there.org
  Me@here2.com
  everybody@earth.edu
  nobody@domainerror.cc

When you iterate over a list, you get its elements,
whereas when you iterate over a string, you get each
character, which is what was happening when you went
the triple-quotes route.

Kirby