Pythonic way to print list items

Question

I would like to know if there is a better way to print all objects in a Python list than this :

myList = [Person(\"Foo\"), Person(\"Bar\")]
print(\"\\n\".joi         


        

Answer 1

OP's question is: does something like following exists, if not then why

print(p) for p in myList # doesn't work, OP's intuition

answer is, it does exist which is:

[p for p in myList] #works perfectly

Basically, use [] for list comprehension and get rid of print to avoiding printing None. To see why print prints None see this

Answer 2

Assuming you are using Python 3.x:

print(*myList, sep='\n')

You can get the same behavior on Python 2.x using from __future__ import print_function, as noted by mgilson in comments.

With the print statement on Python 2.x you will need iteration of some kind, regarding your question about print(p) for p in myList not working, you can just use the following which does the same thing and is still one line:

for p in myList: print p

For a solution that uses '\n'.join(), I prefer list comprehensions and generators over map() so I would probably use the following:

print '\n'.join(str(p) for p in myList) 

Answer 3

I use this all the time :

#!/usr/bin/python

l = [1,2,3,7] 
print "".join([str(x) for x in l])

Answer 4

I recently made a password generator and although I'm VERY NEW to python, I whipped this up as a way to display all items in a list (with small edits to fit your needs...

    x = 0
    up = 0
    passwordText = ""
    password = []
    userInput = int(input("Enter how many characters you want your password to be: "))
    print("\n\n\n") # spacing

    while x <= (userInput - 1): #loops as many times as the user inputs above
            password.extend([choice(groups.characters)]) #adds random character from groups file that has all lower/uppercase letters and all numbers
            x = x+1 #adds 1 to x w/o using x ++1 as I get many errors w/ that
            passwordText = passwordText + password[up]
            up = up+1 # same as x increase


    print(passwordText)

Like I said, IM VERY NEW to Python and I'm sure this is way to clunky for a expert, but I'm just here for another example

Answer 5

Expanding @lucasg's answer (inspired by the comment it received):

To get a formatted list output, you can do something along these lines:

l = [1,2,5]
print ", ".join('%02d'%x for x in l)

01, 02, 05

Now the ", " provides the separator (only between items, not at the end) and the formatting string '02d'combined with %x gives a formatted string for each item x - in this case, formatted as an integer with two digits, left-filled with zeros.

Answer 6

To display each content, I use:

mylist = ['foo', 'bar']
indexval = 0
for i in range(len(mylist)):     
    print(mylist[indexval])
    indexval += 1

Example of using in a function:

def showAll(listname, startat):
   indexval = startat
   try:
      for i in range(len(mylist)):
         print(mylist[indexval])
         indexval = indexval + 1
   except IndexError:
      print('That index value you gave is out of range.')

Hope I helped.