I'm having trouble getting my head around a solution for a situation
where I need to flexibly format some text with a varying number of
embedded fields.
Here's a simplified description of my challenge...
I have a list of lists called bigList:
bigList = [ little, small, tiny]
The sub-lists have varying sizes. I won't know how many items they have
but it will be between 0 and 3
So perhaps little = [3, 2, 7]
small = [6,4]
tiny = [2]
The values in those sub lists correspond to formatted print strings. The
formatting strings will change over time and they are in a list called
"fmts" where
fmts = [fmtA, fmtB, fmtC] where
fmtA = 'oats %0d kilos over %0d days with %0d workers'
fmtB = 'barley %0d lbs for %0d hours'
fmtC = 'apples %0d baskets'
If I knew how many fields were in each 'sub-list' in bigList ahead of
time, and it never changed I could awkwardly do this:
print fmtA %(little[0], little[1], little[2])
print fmtB %(small[0], small[1])
print fmtC %(tiny[0])
or equivalently,
print fmts[0] %(bigList[0][0], bigList[0][1], bigList[0][2])
print fmts[1] %(bigList[1][0], bigList[1][1])
print fmts[2] %(bigList[2][0])
Both approaches would yield:
oats 3 kilos over 2 days with 7 workers
barley 6 lbs for 4 hours
apples 2 baskets
Now my challenge: since the number of fields is unknown at design time,
my app needs to add be able to flexibly handle this.
I though maybe I could use a loop that figures things out as it goes
along. e.g...
i=0
for fmtString in fmts
numbOfFields = len(fmt[i])
print fmtString %(bigList[i][ need "for 0 to numbOffields" worth of
indices!] )
But I don't know how to have a number of items in the print expression
that align to the numbOfFields value!? Is there some other approach I
can use?
I thought perhaps it would accomodate extra elements in the %(...) part
of the formatted print expression which would be ignored, but that
doesn't work.
Maybe I have to break my fmts up and do a field at a time? Any thoughts
are appreciated :)
-Ross. 4 1137
Ross,
I'm no expert in python, so excuse me if this is inane.
What I would do is have fmts be a dictionary where
fmts = { 3 = 'oats %0d kilos over %0d days with %0d workers',
2 = 'barley %0d lbs for %0d hours',
1 = 'apples %0d baskets'}
then something like
for x in bigList:
print fmts[len(x)] % x
I didn't test this, but in theory it should work.
Hope this helps,
Kerri
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:36 PM, RossRGK <no****@nospam. nowaywrote:
I'm having trouble getting my head around a solution for a situation where I
need to flexibly format some text with a varying number of embedded fields.
Here's a simplified description of my challenge...
I have a list of lists called bigList:
bigList = [ little, small, tiny]
The sub-lists have varying sizes. I won't know how many items they have but
it will be between 0 and 3
So perhaps little = [3, 2, 7]
small = [6,4]
tiny = [2]
The values in those sub lists correspond to formatted print strings. The
formatting strings will change over time and they are in a list called
"fmts" where
fmts = [fmtA, fmtB, fmtC] where
fmtA = 'oats %0d kilos over %0d days with %0d workers'
fmtB = 'barley %0d lbs for %0d hours'
fmtC = 'apples %0d baskets'
If I knew how many fields were in each 'sub-list' in bigList ahead of time,
and it never changed I could awkwardly do this:
print fmtA %(little[0], little[1], little[2])
print fmtB %(small[0], small[1])
print fmtC %(tiny[0])
or equivalently,
print fmts[0] %(bigList[0][0], bigList[0][1], bigList[0][2])
print fmts[1] %(bigList[1][0], bigList[1][1])
print fmts[2] %(bigList[2][0])
Both approaches would yield:
oats 3 kilos over 2 days with 7 workers
barley 6 lbs for 4 hours
apples 2 baskets
Now my challenge: since the number of fields is unknown at design time, my
app needs to add be able to flexibly handle this.
I though maybe I could use a loop that figures things out as it goes along.
e.g...
i=0
for fmtString in fmts
numbOfFields = len(fmt[i])
print fmtString %(bigList[i][ need "for 0 to numbOffields" worth of
indices!] )
But I don't know how to have a number of items in the print expression that
align to the numbOfFields value!? Is there some other approach I can use?
I thought perhaps it would accomodate extra elements in the %(...) part of
the formatted print expression which would be ignored, but that doesn't
work.
Maybe I have to break my fmts up and do a field at a time? Any thoughts are
appreciated :)
-Ross.
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On Oct 10, 4:36*am, RossRGK <nob...@nospam. nowaywrote:
I'm having trouble getting my head around a solution for a situation
where I need to flexibly format some text with a varying number of
embedded fields.
Here's a simplified description of my challenge...
I have a list of lists called bigList:
bigList = [ little, small, tiny]
The sub-lists have varying sizes. *I won't know how many items they have
but it will be between 0 and 3
So perhaps little = [3, 2, 7]
small = [6,4]
tiny = [2]
The values in those sub lists correspond to formatted print strings. The
formatting strings will change over time and they are in a list called
"fmts" where
fmts = [fmtA, fmtB, fmtC] * where
fmtA = 'oats %0d kilos over %0d days with %0d workers'
fmtB = 'barley %0d lbs for %0d hours'
fmtC = 'apples %0d baskets'
If I knew how many fields were in each 'sub-list' in bigList ahead of
time, and it never changed I could awkwardly do this:
print fmtA %(little[0], little[1], little[2])
print fmtB %(small[0], small[1])
print fmtC %(tiny[0])
or equivalently,
print fmts[0] %(bigList[0][0], bigList[0][1], bigList[0][2])
print fmts[1] %(bigList[1][0], bigList[1][1])
print fmts[2] %(bigList[2][0])
Both approaches would yield:
oats 3 kilos over 2 days with 7 workers
barley 6 lbs for 4 hours
apples 2 baskets
Now my challenge: since the number of fields is unknown at design time,
my app needs to add be able to flexibly handle this.
I though maybe I could use a loop that figures things out as it goes
along. e.g...
i=0
for fmtString in fmts
* *numbOfFields = len(fmt[i])
* *print fmtString %(bigList[i][ need "for 0 to numbOffields" worth of
indices!] )
But I don't know how to have a number of items in the print expression
that align to the numbOfFields value!? *Is there some other approach I
can use?
I thought perhaps it would accomodate extra elements in the %(...) part
of the formatted print expression which would be ignored, but that
doesn't work.
Maybe I have to break my fmts up and do a field at a time? *Any thoughts
are appreciated * :)
-Ross.
The tuple() type-conversion function will do what you need:
print fmts[0] % tuple(bigList[0])
print fmts[1] % tuple(bigList[1])
print fmts[2] % tuple(bigList[2])
Kerri Reno wrote:
Ross,
I'm no expert in python, so excuse me if this is inane.
What I would do is have fmts be a dictionary where
fmts = { 3 = 'oats %0d kilos over %0d days with %0d workers',
2 = 'barley %0d lbs for %0d hours',
1 = 'apples %0d baskets'}
then something like
for x in bigList:
print fmts[len(x)] % x
I didn't test this, but in theory it should work.
Hope this helps,
Kerri
Thx for the suggestion - i think that would match the number of fields
to the number of parameters in the specific example but not the general
case. ie fmts[3] could have 3fields this time, but might be 2 another
time or something else.
Plus I don't think print will accept a list 'x' in the %x part of it.
davidsands wrote:
>
The tuple() type-conversion function will do what you need:
print fmts[0] % tuple(bigList[0])
print fmts[1] % tuple(bigList[1])
print fmts[2] % tuple(bigList[2])
I never thought of the tuple type conversion - that looks promising.
Thanks for that!
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