Question

How to separate this list into pieces in Python 2.6, I’m totally confused after 3 hours and need help!

['X1', 'P1(0, 0, 0)', 'P2(0, 0, 0)', 'P3(0, 0, 0)', 'X2', 'P1(0, 0, 0)', 'P2(0, 0, 0)', 'P3(0, 0, 0)', 'X3', 'P1(0, 0, 0)', 'P2(0, 0, 0)', 'P3(0, 0, 0)']

I need something like this for output:

X1 P1 0 0 0
X1 P2 0 0 0
X1 P3 0 0 0

X2 P1 0 0 0
X2 P2 0 0 0
X2 P3 0 0 0

X3 P1 0 0 0
X3 P2 0 0 0
X3 P3 0 0 0

Thanks

Answer 1

    for i in xrange(0,12,4):
        for j in xrange(1,4):
            sub_list = list[i+j].strip(')').split('(')
            print list[i], sub_list[0], ' '.join(sub_list[1].split(','))
        print '\n'

Will give you the desired output.