Question

I am trying to enter list items into a string. I then want to store the string as a variable and print it out in another function. The code I have got so far is:

def b(): 

    ID = [0, 1, 2]
    ID2 = 'ID={0}.{1}.{2}'.format(*ID) 
    return ID2 

if __name__ == '__main__': ID2 = b() 


def c(ID2): 
    print ID2 

if __name__ == '__main__': myObject = c(ID2) 

The output I get is:

[0, 1, 2] 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I was returning the list as well as ID2. This was causing the problem. Sorry about this.

The code is now working. Thanks

Answer 1

def b():
    ID = [0, 1, 2]
    ID2 = ('ID=%d.%d.%d' % tuple(ID))
    return ID2

if __name__ == '__main__': ID2 = b()

def c(ID2):
    print ID2

if __name__ == '__main__': myObject = c(ID2)

works for me, don’t have python3 handy so cannot try with the .format()-syntax.

However myObject = c(ID2) does not make sense, function c() does not return anything