[Tutor] question about looping.

2006-10-06 Thread Doug Potter
Hi, I at trying to create a bunch of text files in a single directory on a Linux system, something like this. import os routers = ['adnc-6321', 'adnp-2341', 'adnw-2632'] for i in routers: os.system('/bin/touch' %s) % i of course this dosn't work. Is there a simple way to get this done?

[Tutor] question

2006-11-03 Thread Doug Potter
I don't get the output I would expect from the following. The variable clean1 gives me an empty string. But if i change the for loop to print i[26:40] I get all the info. what do I need to do to capture all the data to clean1? Thanks. >>> a = open('arp.txt') >>> file = a.read() >>> file =