Formatting elements of a list into a specific string

Question

I'm trying to take a list of terms and output them in a specific format.

For example, I have a list of verbs:

verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']

and I want my output to be a string, where each item in the list is also a string, delineated by a |

magic(verbs)

output:

"eat" | "run" | "jump" | etc.

I've tried using the .join method, but that just gives me one big string of the terms separated by pipes, instead of what I want. Any ideas? I'm pretty new to Python and I'm sorry if this is incredibly low-brow or something that has been answered elsewhere.

• Barmar: Use a list comprehension that puts the quotes around each item, then use .join() to join them with a pipe.
• John Doyle Wagner: Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']
x=(' | '.join('"' + item + '"' for item in verbs))
print(x)

you can see ouput here

Answer 2

Try with:

verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']
print("|".join(['"'+e+'"' for e in verbs]))

Output:

"eat"|"run"|"jump"|"play"|"walk"|"talk"|"send"

Answer 3

This does what you want:

def magic(terms):
 print(' | '.join('"%s"' % term for term in terms))
verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']
magic(verbs) # -> "eat" | "run" | "jump" | "play" | "walk" | "talk" | "send"

Answer 4

verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']
def magic(s):
 return ' | '.join('"%s"' % x for x in s)
print(magic(verbs))
# "eat" | "run" | "jump" | "play" | "walk" | "talk" | "send"

Answer 5

Between each quote-enclosed verb, put a pipe:

" | ".join('"{0}"'.format(verb) for verb in verbs)

>>> verbs = ['eat', 'run', 'jump', 'play', 'walk', 'talk', 'send']
>>> print(" | ".join('"{0}"'.format(verb) for verb in verbs))
"eat" | "run" | "jump" | "play" | "walk" | "talk" | "send"

• erip: Please explain the downvote so I can improve the answer. Blind downvotes just seem spiteful. :)