sTemplate.replace() returns a string with that substitution.
so you need to reassign it such as:
sTemplate = sTemplate.replace('author1', author1)
Anyway, Sion Arrowsmith above showed you a much better technique of
filling all those values at once.
Hope this helps,
Ali
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Thanks for this. It ahs been very helpful.
I realised that my problem using getattr were because I was trying to
use it over the list of lists, instead of each book. I have written up
a for loop now, and I think I am a lot closer:
for book in all_books:
author1 = getattr(book, 'auth
Ali wrote:
> It's not really clear what you mean?
Ah. sorry. Let me try again.
I start with a csv that looks something like this:
title, author1, author2, publisher, code, ISBN
frogs of canada, andy humber, , springer press, foc2, 111-20345-556
newts of the UK, nigel snodgrass, sarah strauss,
Bernhard Holzmayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>googleboy wrote:
>> I have a cell.txt file that looks like this:
>>
>> ++
>> The title is %title%.
>> The author is %author1% %author2%
>> The Publisher is %publisher1% %publisher2%
>> The ISBN is %ISBN%
>> ++
>
>This looks like a DOS-batch-file
googleboy wrote:
> Hi there.
Hi googleboy!
>
> I am doing a bunch of processing over a list of lists, and am
> interested in doing several things taht don't seem to be working for me
> just at the moment.
>
> I have a list of books with several fields (Title, Author1, Author2,
> Publisher, ISBN
It's not really clear what you mean?
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Hi there.
I am doing a bunch of processing over a list of lists, and am
interested in doing several things taht don't seem to be working for me
just at the moment.
I have a list of books with several fields (Title, Author1, Author2,
Publisher, ISBN) in a csv.
I have a cell.txt file that looks l
