On May 13, 5:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On May 13, 11:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hi - I have a list returned from popen/readlines, and am wondering how
> > to go about iterating over each item which was returned (rather than
> > currently having the whole lot returned).
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> > so far:
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> > >>> f=os.open("./get_hostnames").readlines
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> > returns ['host1 host2 host3 ... hostN\n]'
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> > i'd like to be in a position to iterate through these, grabbing each
> > host. I have played with transmuting to a str, and using split, and
> > this works, but I get the subscript brackets from the list output as
> > expected, as the list output is now a string literal, and this is not
> > what I want - and I think it's a bit long-winded to do a search 'n
> > replace on it - hence why I ask in the subject what's the best way.
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> > >>> f=str(f)
> > >>> f.split()
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> > ["['host1","host2", ... ,"hostN\n']"]
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> > Any help is highly appreciated
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> > ta
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> > dan.
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> I did indeed mean "os.popen", no "os.open"- Hide quoted text -
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I do indeed write a pretty fine real-time, low-bandwidth, game. It is
like real-time chess, and seen the movie, Tron. Can't the P2Ps zip up
in an hour?
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