Make a list into one big string

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August 22nd, 2012, 10:44 AM

amb1s1

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Make a list into one big string

Hi, I'm encountering a problem where I capture an output from a device, but it seems as every word is an item on a list.
This is my capture out put.

Code:

print results

!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 description Reserved for Infrastructure
 switchport access vlan 101
 switchport mode access
 spanning-tree portfast
end
print results[0]
s
print results[1]
h

As you can see it look like that each word is item on a list, but if I type print results[0], I would expect ! to print not the s. I'm a little confude about that. But my end result is that the output is just one string. Thanks

August 22nd, 2012, 10:56 AM

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I cannot tell much from your post. Do this:

print(type(results))

When you discover that results is not type(str()) investigate the type that it is.

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August 22nd, 2012, 11:00 AM

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This is what I get:

print (type(results))
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

August 22nd, 2012, 11:18 AM

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Great. I don't write code that overwrites my system's available names. You seem to have a code that violates my rules.

Try

print(__builtins__.type(results))

August 22nd, 2012, 02:37 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by b49P23TIvg

Great. I don't write code that overwrites my system's available names. You seem to have a code that violates my rules.

Try

print(__builtins__.type(results))

The result was one big string already. Thanks

August 22nd, 2012, 02:53 PM

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Look,

Code:

>>> def f(o):print __builtins__.type(o)
... 
>>> f(3)
<type 'int'>
>>> f('string')
<type 'str'>
>>> f(object)
<type 'type'>
>>> f(object())
<type 'object'>
>>>

It's not "one big string".

Furthermore, the substring "sh" given by your results[0]+results[1] does not appear in your first post.

Something screwy's happening and we're both clueless. Were we given complete information we might untangle things.

September 3rd, 2012, 05:43 PM

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The only way I can think to do this would be something like this.

Code:


list = [1,2,3]
string = ""
for x in list:
  string += x
print string

September 4th, 2012, 03:57 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by amb1s1

As you can see it look like that each word is item on a list,

It most definitely does NOT look like that. It looks like a string with line terminators in it, as for example in:

Code:

>>> results = '''
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 description Reserved for Infrastructure
 switchport access vlan 101
 switchport mode access
 spanning-tree portfast
end'''
>>> print(results)

!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 description Reserved for Infrastructure
 switchport access vlan 101
 switchport mode access
 spanning-tree portfast
end
>>> print(results[0])


>>> print(results[1])
!

But as b49P23TIvg already pointed out, it’s hard to see why results[0] could be “s” and results[1] “h”.

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Make a list into one big string

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