Python: Find in list

As for your first question: that code is perfectly fine and should work if item equals one of the elements inside myList. Maybe you try to find a string that does not exactly match one of the items or maybe you are using a float value which suffers from inaccuracy. As for your second question: … Read more

Python- Robot Framework Rebot Using List

I was able to find a simple solution by using robot.rebot_cli() instead of robot.rebot(). The answer to my example code shown above is as follows. Also, (a side note) running rebot_cli will terminate the program once it is finished merging the files together. To prevent this from happening I included exit=False :

Correct way to write line to file?

This should be as simple as: From The Documentation: Do not use os.linesep as a line terminator when writing files opened in text mode (the default); use a single ‘\n’ instead, on all platforms. Some useful reading: The with statement open() ‘a’ is for append, or use ‘w’ to write with truncation os (particularly os.linesep)

What is the purpose of the word ‘self’?

The reason you need to use self. is because Python does not use the @ syntax to refer to instance attributes. Python decided to do methods in a way that makes the instance to which the method belongs be passed automatically, but not received automatically: the first parameter of methods is the instance the method is called on. That makes methods entirely the … Read more