Printing list elements on separated lines in Python

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I am trying to print out Python path folders using this   import sys print sys path   The output is like this    gt  gt  gt  print sys path         usr bin     home student Desktop     home student my modules     usr lib pyth on2 6     usr lib python2 6 plat-linux2     usr lib python2 6 lib-tk     usr lib pyth on2 6 lib-old     usr lib python2 6 lib-dynload     usr local lib python2 6 dist-pack ages     usr lib python2 6 dist-packages     usr lib python2 6 dist-packages PIL      usr lib python2 6 dist-packages gst-0 10     usr lib pymodules python2 6     usr lib  python2 6 dist-packages gtk-2 0     usr lib pymodules python2 6 gtk-2 0     usr lib p ython2 6 dist-packages wx-2 8-gtk2-unicode     How do I print them into separate lines so I can parse them properly   It should be like this    usr bin  home student Desktop  home student my modules etc

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A slightly more general solution based on join  that works even for pandas Timestamp  print  quot  n quot  join map str  my list

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print   n  join sys path      The outer parentheses are included for Python 3 compatibility and are usually omitted in Python 2

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Use the splat operator     By default    operator prints list separated by space  Use sep operator to specify the  delimiter  print  sys path  sep     n

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Another good option for handling this kind of option is the pprint module  which  among other things  pretty prints long lists with one element per line    gt  gt  gt  import sys  gt  gt  gt  import pprint  gt  gt  gt  pprint pprint sys path          usr lib python27 zip      usr lib python2 7      usr lib python2 7 plat-linux2      usr lib python2 7 lib-tk      usr lib python2 7 lib-old      usr lib python2 7 lib-dynload      usr lib python2 7 site-packages      usr lib python2 7 site-packages PIL      usr lib python2 7 site-packages gst-0 10      usr lib python2 7 site-packages gtk-2 0      usr lib python2 7 site-packages setuptools-0 6c11-py2 7 egg-info      usr lib python2 7 site-packages webkit-1 0    gt  gt  gt

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Use the print function  Python 3 x  or import it  Python 2 6     from   future   import print function  print  sys path  sep   n

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Sven Marnach s answer is pretty much it  but has one generality issue    It will fail if the list being printed doesn t just contain strings   So  the more general answer to  How to print out a list with elements separated by newlines      print   n  join   str myelement  for myelement in mylist      Then again  the print function approach JBernardo points out is superior   If you can  using the print function instead of the print statement is almost always a good idea

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for path in sys path      print path

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sys path returns the list of paths  ref     sys path   A list of strings that specifies the search path for modules  Initialized from the environment variable PYTHONPATH  plus an installation-dependent default   As initialized upon program startup  the first item of this list  path 0   is the directory containing the script that was used to invoke the Python interpreter  If the script directory is not available  e g  if the interpreter is invoked interactively or if the script is read from standard input   path 0  is the empty string  which directs Python to search modules in the current directory first  Notice that the script directory is inserted before the entries inserted as a result of PYTHONPATH   import sys dirs sys path for path in dirs     print path    or you can print only first path by  print dir 0

[python] Printing list elements on separated lines in Python

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