Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/01/2014 10:24, Mkhanyisi Madlavana wrote: How would I print washington and monroe using [:]? print X[::3] How would I print every element but those two names? print X[1::2] On 21 January 2014 12:18, Alan Gauld mailto:alan.ga...@btinternet.com>> wrote: On 21/01/14 06:18, Adriansanch

Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread Mkhanyisi Madlavana
How would I print washington and monroe using [:]? print X[::3] How would I print every element but those two names? print X[1::2] On 21 January 2014 12:18, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 21/01/14 06:18, Adriansanchez wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> I am newbie to Python and programming in general. My

Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread Keith Winston
If you are playing around at the Python prompt (the >>>), which you really should be to get the hang of this stuff, you might notice that the bracket indexing that you and everyone is talking about works both on strings (Y) and on lists (X: in this case, a list of strings). They may not behave the

Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread eryksun
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > for name in X: > if name not in (X[0], X[-1]): >print name > > For the special case of excluding the first and > last names you could use the [:] notation like > this: > > print X[1:-1] > > But that only works where you want *all*

Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread spir
On 01/21/2014 07:18 AM, Adriansanchez wrote: Hello everyone, I am newbie to Python and programming in general. My question is, given a list: X=['washington','adams','jefferson','madison','monroe'] And a string: Y='washington,adams,jefferson,madison,monroe' Side note: you can generate X automati

Re: [Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/01/14 06:18, Adriansanchez wrote: Hello everyone, I am newbie to Python and programming in general. My question is, given a list: X=['washington','adams','jefferson','madison','monroe'] And a string: Y='washington,adams,jefferson,madison,monroe' How would I print washington and monroe usin

[Tutor] How to print certain elements

2014-01-21 Thread Adriansanchez
Hello everyone, I am newbie to Python and programming in general. My question is, given a list: X=['washington','adams','jefferson','madison','monroe'] And a string: Y='washington,adams,jefferson,madison,monroe' How would I print washington and monroe using [:]? How would I print every element b