[Tutor] Iterate Suggestion

[Bod Soutar]

On 14 April 2012 16:27, Tom Tucker <tktucker at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello all.  Any suggestions how I could easily iterate over a list and
> print the output 3 across (when possible)?  One method I was considering
> was removing the recently printed item from the list, checking list length,
> etc.  Based on the remaining length of the list I would then print X
> across. Yah? Is their and easier approach I might be overlooking?
>
>
> For example...
>
> mylist = ['serverA', 'serverB', 'serverC', 'serverD',' serverE',
> 'serverF', 'serverG']
>
>
> Desired Output
> ============
> serverA  serverB  serverC
> serverD  serverE  serverF
> serverG
>
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How about something like this

mylist =  ['serverA', 'serverB', 'serverC', 'serverD','serverE', 'serverF',
'serverG']
tempstr = ""
count = 0

for item in mylist:
    count += 1
    if count == 3:
        tempstr += (i + "\n")
        count = 0
    else:
        tempstr += (i + " ")

print tempstr


The above code prepares an empty string variable, and a count variable. On
each iteration, it checks to see if the count is equal to 3. If it is, then
it appends the current list element to the string and also adds a newline
character("\n"), then the count is reset to 0. If the count isn't 3, it
simply appends the current list element along with a space.

Hope this helps,
Bodsda
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