On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:33 PM, WP <no.i.d...@want.mail.from.spammers.com> wrote: > Hello, I have dictionary {1:"astring", 2:"anotherstring", etc} > > I now want to print: > "Press 1 for astring" > "Press 2 for anotherstring" etc > > I could do it like this: > dict = {1:'astring', 2:'anotherstring'} > for key in dict.keys(): > print 'Press %i for %s' % (key, dict[key]) > > Press 1 for astring > Press 2 for anotherstring > > but can I use a join instead? >
Sure. Look up list comprehensions and generator expressions in the docs. '\n'.join('Press %i for %s' % (key, value) for (key, value) in d.items()) will get you the entire string. Whether this is better than what you have done is a consideration I leave to you. -- kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list