"Scott Oertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> 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. >> > Do you have any good documentation that could shed some more light > on > exactly how to use format strings in such a way?
The docs contain the basic documentation, here is a short example: data = ['one','fifteen',''four'] max_width = max([len(w) for w in data)]) # there's a slightly better way to do this which I can't recall right now! # %% -> literal %, # %s = insert string # so %%%ss -> %Xs where X is the inserted data fmtStr = "%%%ss\t%%%ss%%%ss" % (max_width, max_width, max_width) print fmtStr % tuple(data) That should produce a format string where each column is the max width of any of the data items You can use the string center() method to pad the headings if required. You can either put left/right justification into the format string (using +/-) or use the string methods (rjust,ljust) to do it for you. If its not clear how to extend that to a multi dimensional set of data then feel free to ask for more detail with some sample data and the specific requirements HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
