for names in city_names: iteration_count += 1 print(iteration_count, names) I am trying to set the result of this loop equal to a variable, how would I proceed in doing so?
Here is the list I am using in the loop:
city_names = ['Buenos Aires', 'Toronto', 'Marakesh', 'Albuquerque', 'Los Cabos', 'Greenville', 'Archipelago Sea', 'Pyeongchang', 'Walla Walla Valley', 'Salina Island', 'Solta', 'Iguazu Falls'] Try this :
city_names = ['Buenos Aires', 'Toronto', 'Marakesh', 'Albuquerque', 'Los Cabos', 'Greenville', 'Archipelago Sea', 'Pyeongchang', 'Walla Walla Valley', 'Salina Island', 'Solta', 'Iguazu Falls'] result = '' iteration_count = 1 for names in city_names: result = result + str(iteration_count) + ' ' + names + ' ' iteration_count += 1 print (result) Result is as you wanted it to be:
1 Buenos Aires 2 Toronto 3 Marakesh 4 Albuquerque 5 Los Cabos 6 Greenville 7 Archipelago Sea 8 Pyeongchang 9 Walla Walla Valley 10 Salina Island 11 Solta 12 Iguazu Falls You can use the str.join method with a generator expression that iterates through the enumerate generator that outputs city_names with a counter:
output = ''.join(f'{count} {name}\n' for count, name in enumerate(city_names, 1)) output becomes:
1 Buenos Aires 2 Toronto 3 Marakesh 4 Albuquerque 5 Los Cabos 6 Greenville 7 Archipelago Sea 8 Pyeongchang 9 Walla Walla Valley 10 Salina Island 11 Solta 12 Iguazu Falls In general, to capture what gets printed to the standard output into a variable, you can temporarily override sys.stdout with a StringIO object using the unittest.mock.patch method as a context manager:
from io import StringIO from unittest.mock import patch with patch('sys.stdout', new=StringIO()) as output: iteration_count = 0 for names in city_names: iteration_count += 1 print(iteration_count, names) print(output.getvalue()) This outputs:
1 Buenos Aires 2 Toronto 3 Marakesh 4 Albuquerque 5 Los Cabos 6 Greenville 7 Archipelago Sea 8 Pyeongchang 9 Walla Walla Valley 10 Salina Island 11 Solta 12 Iguazu Falls
var = zip(city_names, range(len(city_names)))?result = list(enumerate(city_names, start=1))?