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simple question on persisting variable values in a list

kyosohma at gmail.com kyosohma at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 16:41:39 EST 2007 
On Nov 20, 3:25 pm, dgris... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am an unabashed noob.
>
> I am trying to build a list to store values that are generated through
> a loop.  However, every time I append the variable to the list, I'd
> like to reset the variable, but have the value persist in the loop.  I
> understand why this doesn't work because it's a reference not a
> literal value but have been unsuccessful at using copy.copy() or
> anything else to accomplish this:
>
> for char in splitlines[r]:
>
>             if char == "\n":
>                 temp = copy.deepcopy(templine)
>                 individline.append(temp)
>                 templine = ""
>             else:
>                 templine += char
>
> results.append(individline)
>
> This just gives me the last element in splitlines[r] - what i want is
> to persist each line that is parsed from splitlines[] into the results
> list.
>
> Appreciate any help,,,

Not sure if this is what you want, but here's what I did:

<IDLE session>

>>> x = 'blah\nblah\n'
>>> lst = []
>>> templine = ''
>>> for char in x:
	if char == '\n':
		temp = templine
		lst.append(temp)
		templine = ''
	else:
		templine += char


>>> lst
['blah', 'blah']

</IDLE session>

Mike
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