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Hello there.

I'm creating a little text changer in Python. In the program there is a
while loop. The problem is that a while loop will have 1 print statement
and it will loop until it gets to the end of the text.
Example:

num = 5 // Set num to 5
while num >= 1: // loop 5 times.
print """text"""
num = num-1
// end.

The programs output will be:
text
text
(etc)

How could I make this print: texttexttexttexttext?
Ive researched and looked through google and so far I can't find
anything that will help (or revelent for that matter).

Thanks for looking.

Danny wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> I'm creating a little text changer in Python. In the program there is a
> while loop. The problem is that a while loop will have 1 print statement
> and it will loop until it gets to the end of the text.
> Example:
>
> num = 5 // Set num to 5
> while num >= 1: // loop 5 times.
> print """text"""
> num = num-1
> // end.

Don't use while for that, this is considered unpythonix. Use a for-loop with
xrange instead. If you need the nums in that order, use xrange with a
negative step:

Use sys.stdout.write:

import sys

for i in xrange(num, 0, -1):
sys.stdout.write("text")


Diez

Danny wrote:
> How could I make this print: texttexttexttexttext?
> Ive researched and looked through google and so far I can't find
> anything that will help (or revelent for that matter).

I am not quite sure, if I simplify the problem but i thought about
something like that:

>>> print "text"*5
texttexttexttexttext

cheers

Stefan
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Danny wrote:
> <snip>

As a shortcut:

print "text"*5

--- Heiko.

I think I should paste some of the programs code a little more of what I
want...

var = 0
while var <= 5:
print a[t[var]]
var = var +1

a is a dectionary (very big) and t is a string of text. (if that's
important right now).

I'm just trying to make the value of a[t[var]] print on one line if that
makes any sense...
Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well and if my examples aren't
very good, I am trying.

Danny wrote:
> I think I should paste some of the programs code a little more of what I
> want...
>
> var = 0
> while var <= 5:
> print a[t[var]]
> var = var +1
>
> a is a dectionary (very big) and t is a string of text. (if that's
> important right now).
>
> I'm just trying to make the value of a[t[var]] print on one line if that
> makes any sense...
> Sorry if I'm not explaining this very well and if my examples aren't
> very good, I am trying.
I mean that what you are looking for is:
print a[t[var]],
Notice the last comma in the line above.

Claudio

Great! It's been solved.

The line, as Glaudio said has a "," at the end and that makes it go onto
one line, thanks so much man!

var = 0
while <= 5:
print a[t[var]],
var = var +1
prints perfectly, thanks so much guys.

Danny wrote:

> I think I should paste some of the programs code a little more of what I
> want...
>
> var = 0
> while var <= 5:
> print a[t[var]]
> var = var +1
>
> a is a dectionary (very big) and t is a string of text. (if that's
> important right now).
>
> I'm just trying to make the value of a[t[var]] print on one line if that
> makes any sense...

if you don't want print's behaviour, you can print directly to the
stdout stream:

import sys

for var in range(5):
sys.stdout.write(a[t[var]])

write only accepts strings, so if the dictionary may contain other
stuff, you need to use the str() function to convert the data on
the way out:

for var in range(5):
sys.stdout.write(str(a[t[var]]))

</F>

Danny wrote:

> Great! It's been solved.
>
> The line, as Glaudio said has a "," at the end and that makes it go onto
> one line, thanks so much man!
>
> var = 0
> while <= 5:
> print a[t[var]],
> var = var +1
> prints perfectly, thanks so much guys.

if you wanted spaces between the items, why didn't you
say that ?

> How could I make this print: texttexttexttexttext?

>>> for i in range(5):
.... print "text"
....
text
text
text
text
text
>>> for i in range(5):
.... print "text",
....
text text text text text
>>> import sys
>>> for i in range(5):
.... sys.stdout.write("text")
....
texttexttexttexttext
>>>

oh well.

</F>

Danny <> wrote:
>The programs output will be:
>text
>text
>(etc)
>
>How could I make this print: texttexttexttexttext?
>Ive researched and looked through google and so far I can't find
>anything that will help (or revelent for that matter).

I'm kind of surprised this isn't a FAQ (if it's in the FAQs, I
can't find it).

http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.htm...00000000000000
tells you how to use

print "text", # Note the comma. Oh, and the correct comment character.

to get

text text text text text

http://docs.python.org/tut/node9.htm...00000000000000
hints that what you want may be

sys.stdout.write("text")

to get

texttexttexttexttext

Beware that in either case you'll need an additional print at the
end of the loop to get the final newline back.

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