[Tutor] Removing characters in a string using format()

[Ryan Porter]

Thanks for help, James! It works perfectly.

Ryan

On 7/21/2011 11:13 AM, James Reynolds wrote:
> Since you're using python 3, you can just use a star to unpack the list
>
> like so:
>
> >>> print(*x)
> a b
> >>> print(*x, sep = ', ')
> a, b
>
> You can use sep to change the separator if you want the commas still.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ryan Porter 
> <websterhamster at felton4h.net <mailto:websterhamster at felton4h.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     In one part of a program I'm writing, I want a list to be printed
>     to the string. Here's my code:
>
>     # Begin snippet
>     listString = input('Please enter a single item: >').strip();
>
>     /        print();
>            itemList.append(listString);
>     /
>
>     /...
>     /
>
>     /print('And here it is in alphabetical order:', itemList)
>     # End Snippet
>     /
>
>     However, when I print the list, I get something like this:
>     ['Python', 'best', 'ever', 'is', 'language', 'programming', 'the']
>     with brackets. Is there a way to use format() to remove the
>     brackets before the list is printed?
>
>     Thanks for the help!
>     //
>
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