Why is Python NOT indexing my list and overwriting it with new indexed version? still printing original

Question

Below is a snippet of my code. I am using the Paramiko library and am attempting to manipulate data returned by the shell.

• The output is the raw data,
• var1 turns it into a list that I would like to index to get specific data to handle in the for loop,
• var2 is var1 as a string which will be used for assertion at a later time,
• var3 is where the problems occur. var3 should only hold the specified index values of var1.

My main concern is that when attempting to print screengrab, I am still getting all of the values from var1 even though the for loop should ONLY be parsing through var3. This was working fine yesterday until I made a few changes with the print statement and I am unsure where I went wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    remote = ssh.invoke_shell()
    (*send commands here*)
    output = remote.recv(4000)
    var1 = output.splitlines()
    found_vals = []
    var2 = str(var1)
    if test_title == 'BGP Test':
        var3 = var1[14:27]
    if test_title == 'NAT Test':
        var3 = var1[26:30] + var1[39:44]
    if test_title == 'VPN-IPSECSA Test':
        var3 = var1[8:10] + var1[18:22]
    if test_title == 'LDAP Test':
        var3 = var1[13:]
    if test_title == 'FQDN Test':
        var3 = var1
        var2 = FQDN_output
    if test_title == 'SCP Test' or 'Admin Access Test'or 'NTP Access Test':
        var3 = var1
    for x in var3:
        screengrab = x.decode('utf-8')
        found_vals.append(screengrab)
        print(screengrab)

*FQDN_output is a global variable that is initialized in another function

Answer 1

If I understand the problem correctly, you might want to pull the print statement out of your for loop until your done appending.

In the loop:

var3='working'
for x in var3: 
    found_vals.append(x)
    print(found_vals)

You will get the results

w
wo
wor
...

If you use

for x in var3: 
    found_vals.append(x)
print(found_vals)

This will print working