How to store a print output to variable?

Question

I wanted to know if there was a way to reproduce an output from one section of a code to the end of the code. So I am assuming I need to assign a variable to the print output function. Anyway this is part of my code that I want to store variable output to a variable and reproduce an output anywhere in my code:

for busnum,busname,scaled_power in busses_in_year[data_location]: scaled_power= float(scaled_power) busnum = int(busnum) output='Bus #: {}\t Area Station: {}\t New Load Total: {} MW\t' print(output.format(busnum,busname,scaled_power))

Zach Gates · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-06 15:33:29Z

You'll need to assign the result of output.format to a variable; not the value of the print function.

formatted_output = output.format(busnum, busname, scaled_power)

The print function will always return None. In your loop, if you need the output for each iteration, store them in a list.

outputs = [] for busnum, busname, scaled_power in busses_in_year[data_location]: scaled_power = float(scaled_power) busnum = int(busnum) output = 'Bus #: {}\t Area Station: {}\t New Load Total: {} MW\t' formatted = output.format(busnum, busname, scaled_power) outputs.append(formatted) print(formatted)

@mike: outputs is defined as an empty list. Elements are being added to the list with output.append(formatted) within the loop. Check out the documentation for list.
I receive error AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'format'
@mike: I had typed output rather than outputs. I've made the correction in my answer.
Am I suppose to write this in the code I have right now. Also the goal was to output this statement at the end of my code. so I tried using code you gave me at the end of my code and it sill gives me same error

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