Your code is needlessly complicated. Instead of this business while 1: try: i = fetch.next() except stopIteration: break simply write: for i in fetch: (if there's an explicit 'fetch = iter(somethingelse)' in code you did not show, then get rid of that and just loop 'for i in somethingelse')
i[1] will never compare equal to count, because i[1] is always a string and count is always an integer. Integers and strings are never equal to each other. Wring code like x = "a string " + 3 does not work in Python. You can either convert to a string and then use the + operator to concatenate: x = "a string " + str(3) or you can use %-formatting: x = "a string %s" % 3 ("%s" accepts any sort of object, not just strings) Using repr(...) (`...` is just a shorthand for this) is what is really introducing the backslashes. When it outputs a string, it quotes the string using backslashes. But you pass the old part of the prepared string through it each time, which leads to doubling backslashes. Below is a program I wrote to process the data in your message. It prints out Memory 2 Summary=0, Speed=PC3200U-30330, Type=DDR SDRAM, Size=512, Slot=DIMM2/J13, ConfigurationType=2 Memory 3 Summary=0, Speed=PC3200U-30330, Type=DDR SDRAM, Size=512, Slot=DIMM3/J14, ConfigurationType=2 Memory 0 Summary=0, Speed=PC3200U-30330, Type=DDR SDRAM, Size=512, Slot=DIMM0/J11, ConfigurationType=2 Memory 1 Summary=0, Speed=PC3200U-30330, Type=DDR SDRAM, Size=512, Slot=DIMM1/J12, ConfigurationType=2 the result is out of order because the result of calling .items() on a dict is in an arbitrary order. Jeff s = [['Memory', '0', 'Summary', '0'], ['Memory', '0', 'Speed', 'PC3200U-30330'], ['Memory', '0', 'Type', 'DDR SDRAM'], ['Memory', '0', 'Size', '512'], ['Memory', '0', 'Slot', 'DIMM0/J11'], ['Memory', '0', 'ConfigurationType', '2'], ['Memory', '1', 'Summary', '0'], ['Memory', '1', 'Speed', 'PC3200U-30330'], ['Memory', '1', 'Type', 'DDR SDRAM'], ['Memory', '1', 'Size', '512'], ['Memory', '1', 'Slot', 'DIMM1/J12'], ['Memory', '1', 'ConfigurationType', '2'], ['Memory', '2', 'Summary', '0'], ['Memory', '2', 'Speed', 'PC3200U-30330'], ['Memory', '2', 'Type', 'DDR SDRAM'], ['Memory', '2', 'Size', '512'], ['Memory', '2', 'Slot', 'DIMM2/J13'], ['Memory', '2', 'ConfigurationType', '2'], ['Memory', '3', 'Summary', '0'], ['Memory', '3', 'Speed', 'PC3200U-30330'], ['Memory', '3', 'Type', 'DDR SDRAM'], ['Memory', '3', 'Size', '512'], ['Memory', '3', 'Slot', 'DIMM3/J14'], ['Memory', '3', 'ConfigurationType', '2']] query = {} for a, b, c, d in s: if not query.has_key((a,b)): query[(a,b)] = [] query[(a,b)].append("%s=%s" % (c, d)) for (a,b), v in query.items(): print a, b, ", ".join(v)
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