Function prints the quotation marks and the curly brackets in this for loop function in python

The function see_inventory() prints the quotation marks in the for loop inside it, how do i make it so the function prints the list without the quotation marks? I am a begginer btw.

class Person:

equipped_armor =
"head": "name": "cap", "defense": 1,
"chest": "name": "mail", "defense": 2,
"legs": "name": "wooden leggings", "defense": 1,

gold = 10


stored_armor = "Stored Armor: ": ["rash leggings"]
weapons = "Weapons: ": ["wooden_sword", "mythrill_staff"]
potions = "Potions: ": ["HP potion"]
ui_gold = "Gold: ": gold

inv = [
stored_armor,
weapons,
potions,
ui_gold
]

def __init__(self):
self.name = "Cavalex"

def see_inventory(self):
for element in self.inv:
print(element)


By running this:

player = Person()
player.see_inventory()


I get this:

'Stored Armor: ': ['rash leggings']
'Weapons: ': ['wooden sword', 'mythril staff']
'Potions: ': ['HP potion']
'Gold: ': 10


3 Answers
3

First, let's reduce your example; the class structure is immaterial to the problem.

gold = 10
stored_armor = "Stored Armor: ": ["rash leggings"]
weapons = "Weapons: ": ["wooden_sword", "mythrill_staff"]
potions = "Potions: ": ["HP potion"]
ui_gold = "Gold: ": gold

inv = [
stored_armor,
weapons,
potions,
ui_gold
]


Now, you're trying to print the list of items without the punctuation that comes naturally with the data storage you chose. To do this, you have to reach inside that storage and reformat the items the way you want to see them.

In this case, it's not qwuite trivial, since you've chosen a non-homogeneous structure for your player's backpack: a list of dictionaries whose values are of differing types. I solved this by cycling through the list (after correcting your mistyped variable name) and checking the type of the value before constructing the output.

for element in inv:
for key, val in element.items():
if type(val) == list:
inventory = ' '.join([item for item in val])
else:
inventory = str(val)

print(key, inventory)


Output:

Stored Armor: rash leggings
Weapons: wooden_sword mythrill_staff
Potions: HP potion
Gold: 10


Here is a real simple way to do it.

str(player.see_inventory()).replace("'", "")

str(player.see_inventory()).replace("'", "")

Or in the function something like:

print(str(element).replace("'", ""))

print(str(element).replace("'", ""))

see_inventory

replace

str

Here you go, just make this small change to see_inventory this will get the job done

see_inventory

def see_inventory(self):
for element in self.inv:
for k, v in element.items():
if type(v) == list:

print(k, ' '.join(v))
else:
print(k, v)


Output

(xenial)vash@localhost:~/python$ python3.7 armor.py
Stored Armor: rash leggings
Weapons: wooden_sword mythrill_staff
Potions: HP potion
Gold: 10


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