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I am having trouble dealing with long strings in python. Specifically, I would like to append them to an array. However, whenever I do so and print the array, the output I get is merely the following:

[[...]]

I get the same thing in a CSV file when I try to export it, suggesting that it is not just a display error. Could someone please take a look at my code below and suggest how I can store long-form text in an array. Although the example below is just for one corpus, I will need to store multiple text corpuses in one data structure.

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from __future__ import print_function
import urllib2
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

site = "http://video.google.com/timedtext?lang=en&v="

videoID = "PSad5j8w-Ls"

response = urllib2.urlopen(site+videoID)

xml = ET.fromstring(response.read())

captions = []

content = ' '.join([i.text.replace("'", "'").replace(""", '"') for i in xml])

captions.append(captions)

print(captions[0])

You are appending an empty list to itself

captions.append(captions)