On 20/01/2016 09:35, Paul Appleby wrote:
In BASH, I can have a single format descriptor for a list:
$ a='4 5 6 7'
$ printf "%sth\n" $a
4th
5th
6th
7th
Is this not possible in Python? Using "join" rather than "format" still
doesn't quite do the job:
a = range(4, 8)
print ('th\n'.join(map(str,a)))
4th
5th
6th
7
Is there an elegant way to print-format an arbitrary length list?
There's a useful recipe here
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577845-format_iter-easy-formatting-of-arbitrary-iterables
hence.
>>> a=range(4,8)
>>> from myutils import format_iter
>>> print(format_iter(a, fmt='{}th', sep='\n'))
4th
5th
6th
7th
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