Alan Gauld wrote: > "Scott Oertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >> and you want to sort and output the text into columns as such: >> >> a p j b n >> apple python john bean nice >> ample joke >> >> and this is what works, but I would also like to know how to wrap >> the >> columns, plus any ideas on a better way to accomplish this. >> > > Use format strings. You can calculate the column widths by analyzing > the data then create a format string for the required number of > columns. > Finally insert the data on each row from a tuple. > > > HTH, > > > Do you have any good documentation that could shed some more light on exactly how to use format strings in such a way?
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